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Subject:    Notification: incoming/1723
From:       jtcsv () jtcsv ! com
Date:       2002-02-27 21:52:50
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grhoten moved PR#1723 from incoming to collation
Message summary for PR#1723
	From: grhoten@jtcsv.com
	Subject: Remove collation from en_US_POSIX
	Date: unknown
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	Notes: assigned to: george
target: 2002q1
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From: grhoten@jtcsv.com
To: jtcsv@jtcsv.com
Subject: Remove collation from en_US_POSIX

Full_Name: George Rhoten
Version: 200
OS: all
ICU_Component: collation
project: ICU4C
Submission from: (NULL) (32.97.110.70)
Submitted by: grhoten


Here is the proposal from the ICU mailing list.

I propose to remove the CollationElements from the en_US_POSIX locale.

Here are the reasons for removing this collation.
* The current collation is based on the iso-8859-1 codepage, which isn't 
very useful when you're not using that codepage.
* People expect to get the UCA collation by default.
* This collation is not based on any known real language rules.  It's only 
based on a codepage.


There are two work-arounds for getting this collation again by default.
* Make your own locale (like en_US_ISO88581), and add it to 
source/data/locales/reslocal.mk in your copy of ICU.
* Or build a collator with your rules, and keep it around as the default 
collator.

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