On Friday 03 September 2004 10:25, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> This patch implements loose codeset matching for NetBSD along the same
> lines as Linux.  If the codeset is specified using the exact NetBSD
> name, the result should be very nearly as efficient as today's code.
> Otherwise, the code does a directory search looking for a matching
> name.
>
> Does anybody object to this patch?
>
> If nobody objects, whose approval should I seek before checking this
> in?

Interesting idea. Right now i'm using "export LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R" and it works 
quite fine with console/X and so on. With this patch i can use for example 
"export LANG=ru_RU.koi8r". But what about iconv() ? Will iconv recognize new 
locale specification style ?

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