118814 - add regex capability to unixcharset.property

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Frank Tang]

currently, we need to specify the EXACT locale name in the unixcharset.property
file for FreeBSD or other Unix which DO NOT support nl_langinfo. It will be nice
if we can have RegEx capability in it.
So... instead of 
+locale.all.da_DK.ISO_8859-1=ISO-8859-1
+locale.all.de_AT.ISO_8859-1=ISO-8859-1
+locale.all.de_CH.ISO_8859-1=ISO-8859-1
....

we could have
+locale.match.*ISO[-]?8859[-]?1=ISO-8859-1

assign to [e-mail] since he care about FreeBSD.
cc shanjian and [e-mail]

[e-mail] seems familar with RegEx, maybe he
can help this issue :) this way can we reduce the size of unixcharset.property
and make it smaller. We should use different base key (not locale.all, but
somthing like locale.match) for regex entry.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

and the regex entry should be apply AFTER It cannot find the exact mapping