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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Wed,  5 Oct 2011 13:01:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] radar
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On Wednesday 05 of October 2011 12:47:53 Steve Simon wrote:
> As a UK resident it has occasionaly hit me how some bits of plan9
> (and there are only a few) are US centric.
>=20
> perhaps we could have somthing like /adm/country/ (analogous to
> /adm/timezone) which would have various config files for things like
> radar, areacodes/stdcodes zipcodes/postcodes, weather, tv etc.
>=20
> I wouldn't want to follow Linux's LC_COLLATE and friends but plan9 standa=
rd
> way of handling such stuff might be nice.

while LC_COLLATE & friends on Linux are runtime-configurable (which leads t=
o=20
extra complexity), perhaps on Plan 9 it would be OK to just link in the rig=
ht=20
libraries?=20

let /lib/ contain libraries with subroutines for `generic' locale (the curr=
ent=20
implementation)
let /lib/i18n/en_GB/lib/ contain libraries with subroutines tailored for=20
`en_GB' locale
let /lib/i18n/pl_PL/lib/ contain libraries with subroutines tailored for=20
`pl_PL' locale

before building any program, Steve would
bind -b /lib/i18n/en_GB/lib/ /lib/

and I would=20
bind -b /lib/i18n/pl_PL/lib/ /lib/

=2D-=20
dexen deVries

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