Re: Locales in new libc: eeew!

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> >  I tried to check the locale of my country and see if I could improve it,
> > and then I found that locales are all like this:
> > 
> > LC_ADDRESS
> > postal_fmt    "<U0025><U0066><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0061><U0025><U004E>/
> > <U0025><U0064><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0062><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0073>/
> > <U0020><U0025><U0068><U0020><U0025><U0065><U0020><U0025><U0072><U0025>/
> > <U004E><U0025><U0025><U007A><U0020><U0025><U0054><U0025>/
> > <U004E><U0025><U0063><U0025><U004E>"
> > END LC_ADDRESS
> > 
> >  What!! An hexdump? Is someone insane? The SUSv2 standard (Unix98) allows
> > using the characters themselves... why would we want something like this?
> 
> This is more appropriate on the libc-alpha list.

 I didn't know of such list.. in fact: Does the libc project have some kind
of homepage with news and mailing list archives?