Bug#284137: locale -a reports misleading values for UTF-8 locales

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 00:03:09 +0100,
Guillermo S. Romero <gsromero@alumnos.euitt.upm.es> wrote:
> > I think the problem is the system does not provide the function to
> > answer "en_GB.UTF-8 and en_GB.utf8 is the same locale".  One way to
> > check that two locales are same or not:
> [... script ...]
> > (If you think it's worthwhile that glibc includes this shell script,
> > please let me know)
> 
> Well, it would help, but then the users have to be informed the tool
> exists, which is similar effort than inform the issue with locale -a
> output, or just which one is the prefered values (for example,
> man page pointing users to check /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED).

Then, could you show us the best way to improve as you think?  I think
I and Denis already explained the difference between "locale -a" and
"X11 issue" - now your turn.

Regards,
-- gotom