Bug#214906: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias)

[sferriol <sylvain.ferriol@imag.fr>]

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> #214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias,
> which was filed against the locales package.
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> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier).
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> Subject: Re: Bug#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias
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> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Sylvain Ferriol wrote:
>
> > Package: locales
> > Version: 2.3.2-7
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > i try to configure debian to UTF-8
> > so i run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select fr_FR.UTF-8@euro
>
> [...]
>
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > Architecture: i386
> > Kernel: Linux bredele 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
> > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro
>
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Err, if this locale was broken, you certainly would have changed these
> settings ;)
> I am closing this bug, locale seems to be generated.  OTOH you will
> have trouble with X applications, you might either choose fr_FR.UTF-8
> or add the line below in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias
>      fr_FR.UTF-8@euro:           fr_FR.UTF-8
> This is a known bug in XFree86 (#185656).
>
> Denis

For me it does not work, i'm using locales_2.3.2-7, in this package 
/etc/locale.alias is:
......
fran�ais        fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
french          fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
.......

now , if you're already in fr_FR.UTF-8, remove or move 
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF8

do a dpkg-reconfigure locales, and select fr_FR.UTF-8

and it does not create /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF8
because in locale-gen script, there is 'localedef .... -A 
/etc/locale.alias ....'

if manually, you enter the command:
localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF-8

so without -A option, it works

sylvain

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