error with locales in glibc 2.2

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

bugs.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't see if this has been
reported as a bug yet. Locales in glibc 2.2 doesn't seem to work
properly. I have this small test program:

------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char *locale_set;

  locale_set = setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "");
  printf("locale set: %s\n", locale_set);

  return 0;
}
------

Running it, with a few different values on LANG gives:

tomas@penne:~/src$ ./localetest
locale set: C
tomas@penne:~/src$ LANG=en_US ./localetest
locale set: en_US
tomas@penne:~/src$ LANG=sv_SE ./localetest
locale set: (null)
tomas@penne:~/src$ LANG=en_GB ./localetest
locale set: (null)


I've tested a few more, but so far, I have only been able to find the
default "C" and "en_US" to work.

This is for:

ii  locales        2.2.1-1        GNU C Library: National Language (locale) da
ii  libc6          2.2.1-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

Same thing with 2.2-11 on my Sparc.

It works as it should with libc6 2.1.3-10.

I have the /usr/share/i18n/locales/sv_SE from the locales package, but
I'm no expert on locales, so I don't know if there might be an error
in it (along with a lot of others, except en_US).

Have I missed something in the use of locales? Do I need any other
packages installed?


Greetings,

Tomas