Bug#282715: marked as done (locale.alias contents do not match with typical LANG or LC_* values)
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From: "Guillermo S. Romero" <gsromero@alumnos.euitt.upm.es>
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Subject: locale.alias contents do not match with typical LANG or LC_* values
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Hi:
I have been installing Sarge, and decided to go full utf8. But when
launching xterms I was getting errors about the locales. After some
hunting I found that my env vars had values that C lib likes (for
example en_GB.utf8) but Xlib does not (it wants things like
en_US.UTF-8).
Some more inspection let me found that adding some extra lines to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias made it stop complaining. It
would be nice if this file included the values that you can get from
locale -a (the utf8 ones mapped to the UTF-8 that X has).
Thanks.
GSR
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To: "Guillermo S. Romero" <gsromero@alumnos.euitt.upm.es>
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Subject: Re: Bug#282715: locale.alias contents do not match with typical LANG or LC_* values
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:58:34AM +0100, Guillermo S. Romero wrote:
> barbier@linuxfr.org (2004-11-24 at 0010.10 +0100):
> > The name listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is en_GB.UTF-8 and it is
> > displayed when running 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', so you should use
> > this one.
>
> You are right, the non matching is locale output with its utf8
> lines, sorry for the wrong report. My excuses.
No problem, I am then closing this bugreport. FYI GNU libc normalizes
charset names in order to accept .utf8, .utf-8, .UTF-8 etc. strings
without having to maintain a large locale.alias file similar to the
one in X. This normalized name is internal, you should not care about it.
For instance, if you define charset=utf8 in PO files, msgfmt barfs:
msgfmt: fr.po: warning: Charset "utf8" is not a portable encoding name.
Message conversion to user's charset might not work.
Please use UTF-8 instead ;)
Thanks
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