glibc a requirement? (was RE: Russian in traditional orthography support)

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

Op Do, 2011-09-15 om 09:49 +0900 skryf Johannes Schmid:
> Hi!
>  
> > Also, not all translations' (and even registered teams') locales presented at l10n.gnome.org have glibc support, so I assume it's not a required prerequisite to register a team. Are there reasons we cannot assume "ru@petr1708" locale code not waiting for glibc support, as it's unlikely to change in the future?
> 
> Can you give an example of a team that has a locale not in glib? Usually
> we have this prerequirement (see
> https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/NewLanguage) though it might
> be ok if a bug in glibc exists for it at least.

I've actually wanted to raise this topic a while ago. Why is this a
requirement?

Friedel

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