Bug#277833: gcc-doc: Mistakenly claims United Kingdom locale is "en_UK"
Package: gcc-doc
Version: 4:3.3.4-2
Severity: minor
In the node "Environment Variables", we see the following paragraph
/--------
| These environment variables control the way that GCC uses
| localization information that allow GCC to work with different
| national conventions. GCC inspects the locale categories
| `LC_CTYPE' and `LC_MESSAGES' if it has been configured to do so.
| These locale categories can be set to any value supported by your
| installation. A typical value is `en_UK' for English in the United
| Kingdom.
\--------
This is misleading, as the standard (ISO 3166) 2-letter country code
for the United Kingdom is "GB". So the last sentence would be better
if it were changed to
/--------
| A typical value is `en_GB' for English in the United Kingdom.
\--------
To confirm:
/--------
| $ countrycodes uk gb
|
| Country 2 letter 3 letter Number
| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Great Britain (iso 3166 code is gb) uk gbr 826
| United Kingdom (iso 3166 code is gb) uk gbr 826
| Great Britain gb gbr 826
| United Kingdom gb gbr 826
\--------
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages gcc-doc depends on:
ii gcc-3.3-doc 1:3.3.4-13 Documentation for the GNU compiler
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