Bug#174253: locales: locale.aliases don't work anymore
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.1-8
Severity: critical
Tags: sid
Justification: breaks unrelated software
locale aliases don't work anymore.
Example (japanese is an alias for ja_JP.eucJP):
[boti@mick boti]$ export LC_ALL=japanese
[boti@mick boti]$ gedit
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
[boti@mick boti]$ export LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP
[boti@mick boti]$ gedit
[boti@mick boti]$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mick 2.4.21-pre2 #1 Fri Dec 20 12:51:41 JST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.1-8] 2.3.1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: Leave alone
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1, hu_HU ISO-8859-2, ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP, ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8, ja_JP.SJIS SJIS
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