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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:40:10PM +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote:
> Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >   * How many distinct languages are catered for in that directory?  There's
> >     no way to tell.
> > 
> >   * It's incredibly inconsistent.  Look at
> > 
> >        en_US.utf/      US English, probably
> 
> I think "en" is better.  Because English is used in many countries
> (U.K., Austraria, New Zealand, etc.).
> 
> 
> >        ja/             Japanese, but which encoding?
> > 
> >        ja.JIS/         JIS encoding, so the previous one is probably EUC
> 
> 'ja.JIS' is not needed, I think.  If both 'ja' and 'ja.JIS' exists,
> FreeBSD users will be confused.

OK.  So Satoshi was (as far as I can see) holding up the X11R6 locale 
directory as an example of where things don't need to be explicitly
spelled out, and now you're saying that the same directory structure is
confusing.

I think this is the best example yet of exactly why we should move to a 
more rationalised directory naming scheme -- confusion such as the above
becomes impossible.

N
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