On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Christian PERRIER
<bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
I'm afraid, this is an incorrect use of locales.
Country modifiers shouldn't be used for language variants. So a ug_US
locale means nothing (Uyghur in United States of America? Why not
ug_UK or ug_PT or whatever?).
The correct locale for "Uyghur written in latin script" should be
"ug_CN@latin" (and eventually ug_XX@latin, in case Uyghur is widely
used in another country than "China", such as Kazakhstan, for
instance.
And, in case Uyghur is also written in Cyrillic, as you seem to imply,
then the right locale would be ug_XX@cyrillic, where XX is the country
where the cyrillic variant is the most widely used .....I guess KZ,
then
I would strongly advise against using ug_KZ to denote "Uyghur written
in cyrillic ". It should be kept for "Uyghur written in Arabic script,
in Kazakhstan" (and if that means nothing as Uyghur is never written
in arabic script in KZ, then don't create the locale but create
ug_KZ@cyrillic).
But, really, ug_US should not happen and I doubt upstream glibc
maintainers accept it.
As long as they use different country code, it will work.
ug_CN
ug_KZ@cyrillic
ug_US@latin (or ug_XX@latin, XX other than CN or KZ)
For the Latin based Uyghur, United States is the country where it is used heavily.