Tadziu Hoffmann wrote in <20181218231523.gm7...@usm.uni-muenchen.de>:
|>> I'm against this whole locale thing. It needlessly
|>> complicates groff and will probably fail when reading
|>> foreign manual pages in a "C" locale.
|
|> That's _already_ a big fail, depending on the language.
|
|Not at all. Groff has thankfully remained fairly
|independent of locale so far. I can delete the entire
|/usr/{lib,share}/locale hierarchy and groff continues to
|work correctly as long as the output device supports all the
|characters needed by the document. I strongly believe that
|this should remain so. I don't think it's a good idea to
|have the formatting of a document depend on what locale the
|user has set, not even considering what would then become
|of documents containing a mix of different languages.
Indeed the idea sounds very broken.
|There should exist a way for providing the required information
|in the document itself in a similar way as (for example)
|hyphenation patterns are accessed, and there should also be
|a simple way for the user to augment that data if necessary
|(similar to the way a user can specify extra hyphenation points
|as part of the document source code, or provide additional
|hyphenation pattern files along with the document).
|
|Locale should remain a user preference, not a document
|requirement.
This sounds good to me.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
