Re: Replacement of the locales package

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

>  LC_NAME
> -% "%d%t%g%t%m%t%f"
> -name_fmt    "<U0025><U0064><U0025><U0074><U0025><U0067><U0025><U0074>/
> +% "%p%t%g%t%m%t%f"
> +name_fmt    "<U0025><U0070><U0025><U0074><U0025><U0067><U0025><U0074>/
>  <U0025><U006D><U0025><U0074><U0025><U0066>"
>  name_mr     "<U0073><U002D><U0072><U006F>"              % "s-ro"
>  name_mrs    "<U0073><U002D><U0069><U006E><U006F>"       % "s-ino"
> @@ -212,5 +212,5 @@
>  % "Esperanto"
>  lang_name     "<U0045><U0073><U0070><U0065><U0072><U0061><U006E><U0074><U006F>"
>  lang_ab       "<U0065><U006F>" % "eo"
> -lang_lib      "<U0065><U006F>" % "eo"
> +lang_lib      "<U0065><U0070><U006F>" % "epo"


By the way, while writing a few new locales, I found it very hard
because I followed the above way to represent characters (with Unicode
Hex values).

As I found no dedicated tools for doing so, I wrote the locale with
"gucharmap" openedand editing the locale file with a simple text
editor....with thus a high risk of errors.

Later, I found other locales examples with things like the following
:

(value from fr_FR transposed to the notation I want to enhance)

LC_MESSAGES
yesexpr "<^><[><o><O><y><Y><]><.><*>"
noexpr  "<^><[><n><N><]><.><*>"
END LC_MESSAGES

...which is a bit more readable and less prone to errors in the case
of Latin languages at the minimum.