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Re: [PATCH] en_CA, es_AR, es_ES: Define yesstr and nostr.


On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:02:06PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   Hi!
> 
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:05:57PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > My feeling is that this is positive progress on missing data.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
>   I think it's fine, Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>.
> 
>   Thank you for the verbose comments. :-)
> 
>   (Though I'm not particularly fond of having the ASCII contents of the
> datapoint sequence repeated in the comment, as all data duplication adds
> a potential for inconsistencies. Ideally, we would just actually write
> the characters right in the values instead of the codepoints; I didn't
> find any technical reason why to insist on the <U...> syntax for all
> characters. But then again, I'm personally unlikely to gather the
> momentum to do such a change, mainly to verify that it really is 100%
> safe.)
> 
> > diff --git a/localedata/locales/es_AR b/localedata/locales/es_AR
> > index c757638..27636e7 100644
> > --- a/localedata/locales/es_AR
> > +++ b/localedata/locales/es_AR
> > @@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ copy "es_ES"
> >  END LC_CTYPE
> >  
> >  LC_MESSAGES
> > -yesexpr "<U005E><U005B><U0073><U0053><U0079><U0059><U005D><U002E><U002A>"
> > -noexpr  "<U005E><U005B><U006E><U004E><U005D><U002E><U002A>"
> > +copy "es_ES"
> >  END LC_MESSAGES
> >  
> >  LC_MONETARY
> 
>   It seems that es_US also has a local copy. Any reason why not to add
> the copy statement there too?

I think it is OK to copy the es_ES category. But I am not sure the es_ES category is OK
in the first place, given the guidelines I wrote earlier - if these are accepted.

Best regards
keld


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