From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
> >>>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:00:42 +0900 (JST),
> 	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> said:
> 
> > - make symlinks(like de_DE.ISO8859-1 -> de) in /usr/share/nls.
> 
> Hmmm. I'm not sure whether symlink is the right way or not to solve
> the locale alias problem.
> 
> I personally prefer alias configuration file to symbolic link, because
> configuration file can centralize the alias configuration, when there
> are several hierarchies for locale related database
> (e.g. /usr/share/nls/XXX and /usr/pkg/share/nls/XXX).
> If we use symbolic link to resolve locale alias, we have to have
> several symbolic links for one alias in this case.
> Although symbolic link is much simpler mechanism than alias
> configuration file...

like /usr/share/nls/nlsalias.db ?
I agree that it sounds better than symlinks.
I'll try to implement it before commit previous patches.
thanks.

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YAMAMOTO Takashi<yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>