Re: all of the web pages will now have a mirror list.

[Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:28:38PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:08:31AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > > > It doesn't know how to handle characters like © (which should be sorted
> > > > > between S and T), though :o) Could that be fixed by tweaking the regexp?
> > > > 
> > > > No, i believed it was handled by langcmp.  Maybe you should fix this
> > > > routine?
> > > 
> > > Hmm. I'm not quite sure how to change the function properly.
> > > 
> > > Also, this looks like it could be a slippery slope: if I add an exception
> > > for those five Croatian letters, other people will do it too, and the file
> > > might get bloated with hardly important things... Maybe we could get a
> > > Unicode-aware cmp or something? :) Shouldn't there be a way to use the
> > > locale's sorting method ($LC_COLLATE)?
> > 
> > Indeed, adding
> > 
> >   <perl>
> >     use locale;
> >     use POSIX;
> >     setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "hr_HR");
> >   </perl>
> > 
> > in template/debian/languages.wml fixes this problem.
> > Maybe you could add a variable in <lang>/.wmlrc when locales must be
> > changed?
> 
> How do you mean? A variable that would hold the $LC_COLLATE string?

Exactly, something like (in template/debian/languages.wml)

    <when "$(CUR_LOCALE)">
      <perl>
        use locale;
        use POSIX;
        setlocale(LC_ALL, "$(CUR_LOCALE)");
      </perl>
    </when>

and then translators may add CUR_LOCALE definition in <lang>/.wmlrc when
necessary.

Denis