2007/564 [Locale Launcher]

Glenn Skinner glenn.skinner at sun.com
Mon Oct 1 14:19:54 PDT 2007


    Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Suresh Chandrasekharan <sureshc at sparc-build.sfbay.sun.com>
    Subject: Locale Launcher [PSARC/2007/564 FastTrack timeout
	    10/08/2007]

    4. Technical Description

    ...
    The proposed locale launcher (/usr/bin/localelnchr) is such an
    application which will allow the users to launch legacy locale
    applications from a UTF-8 locale.

Why "localelnchr" as opposed to "localelauncher"?  If the reason was
only to conform to the recommendation to limit utility name lengths,
then I think you should reconsider.  I don't believe that squashing out
three vowels for the sake of conformity justifies the reduced clarity.

(Please note that the recommendation on name lengths is just that -- a
recommendation -- not a hard and fast limit.)

		-- Glenn




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