On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:42:59 -0800 Keith Packard wrote: > I don't see how these are better than LANG and LC_CTYPE, aside from > accepting a list of allowed languages. We could permit that as an > extension for unusual cases, but then we'd want to also use those in > the font preference mechanism which does currently use LANG, LC_CTYPE > and LC_ALL. I'd prefer those familiar variables of course, I'm thinking unusual cases also. > In any case, I want to do this in a new API which would accept an > optional application-provided language tag and return the 'best' > name from the available list (or perhaps sort the available names > according to some metric). Attempting to overload the existing API > with this new semantic seems like a bad idea. 'sort' sounds fine for me ;-) I'm looking forward to see those implementation. Regards, -- Daichi
