Question about ASCII and nl_langinfo (locale work)

[John Marino (FreeBSD)]

On 11/16/2015 10:51 PM, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 17.11.2015 0:06, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> locales the IANA way and are unhappy because that does not work. The 
>> first plan
>> in the collation branch was to introduce the IANA syntax via an alias 
>> but in the
>> end I removed it, because there was already to many changes.
> 
> For ISO case we don't need aliases and can keep our internal names
> hierarchy honoring POLA. All we need is:
> 1) Convert "ISO-" and "ISO_" to "ISO" for setlocale(3) input.
> 2) Convert from "ISO" to "ISO-" for setlocale(3), nl_langinfo(3) and
> locale(1) output.

A huge patch just went into GCC libstdc++ testsuite to change all the
locale names to "ISO8859-" because it works for both Linux and *BSD.

This is a change for changes sake.

Locale -m lists the encodings.
Locale -a lists the available locales

This is true on Linux as well.
Nobody is getting POLA'D here.

Moveover, there is significant work to implement this.  We brought up
the possibility of hyphen- and case- sensitivity on DragonFly and the
idea was shot down.  The reasons were solid enough.

There is no standard for encoding, period.  Using one source is as valid
another another.  I say leave it alone.

John