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Re: Coordination on standardizing gettext() in future POSIX
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Coordination on standardizing gettext() in future POSIX |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:33:52 +0100 |
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
> What should be the reason for making the standard incompatible to the
> existing
> practice since more than 30 years?
gettext(1) in GNU/Linux is also existing practice, for more than 24 years.
And, if I may dare to say, GNU/Linux is more widely deployed than Solaris.
> Gettext is a SunOS invention and other implementations are expected to follow
> the definition from the reference implementation.
Is that your approach to standardization? Take the SunOS/Solaris behaviour
and ignore everything else?
If that is your approach to standardization, then it is better to not
standardize
anything.
Bruno
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