Bug#241577: acknowledged by developer (locales: Please insert pt_BR in /etc/locale.alias)
At Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:25:49 +0200,
Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 08:45:21PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > At Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:14:01 -0300,
> > Marco T?lio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> > > > We have no plan to support such modification, use standard pt_BR.
> > >
> > > Sorry, but the woody's GDM will only work good if it has this alias. I
> > > don't know if you should do or not this, but I think that it will help
> > > all the brazilian woody users.
> >
> > This gdm issue was discussed. It's gdm problem, not libc issue.
> > Using libc locale.alias is not recommended.
>
> One can begin with:
>
> for f in `locale -a`
> do
> echo -n `LANG=$f locale language`
> echo " $f"
> done
>
> After some more processing (removing duplicates, aliases -- ie. when $f is
> different from C, POSIX, ?? and ??_??.* -- and putting all locales for a
> given language on a single line), it should become suitable for GDM.
Yup, using locale files in localedata/locales/*, we can make
translation between standard locale name and English readable name.
It's valuable not only for gdm but also locales debconf templates.
I put this to debian/TODO.
Regards,
-- gotom
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