Subject: Re: Thai
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 16:24:38 CST
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:34:56AM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:27:22AM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, ha shao wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 07:00:59PM +0400, hvv@hippo.ru wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Just rechecked you mail - AW uses "-" instead of "_" as a serparator between
> > > > > country code and territory name (and you've tried the variants with "_", not
> > > > > with "-").
> > > > >
> > > > oops, my bad. Sorry about it.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, is there any reason why '-' is used instead of '_'?
> > >
> > > AW uses '-' instead of '_' as a serparator between language code and
> > > territory code for some unknown reason. I decided not to break this tradition.
> > >
> >
> > Is there a way we could get it to recognize either? As in, both ru-RU
> > and ru_RU being used. This would prevent this sort of confusion.
>
> Currently a very generic function generates a list of possible combinations.
> It would be inconvenient to hack a specialized version for generating all
> "permutations" of font paths just for ignorant people's convenience. Any
> not-shy font packager should ask us why something doesn't work for him.
>
First, writing that code would be very easy. You just have to do a
simple replace of _ to - and vice versa.
Second, this is the sort of things computers, and not people, do well.
Therefore, we can make people's lives easier by including this.
Rgeardless of why the mistake happened, fixing it is easy for us, and
should be done.
What function is it, so that I can change this?
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