Bug#312297: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: locale-gen fails to generate ja_JP.eucJP locale

[barbier@mp4h.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:55:13AM +0300, Sami J. Laine wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/sbin/locale-gen
> Tags: l10n
> 
> locale-gen seems to be unable to generate ja_JP.eucJP locale when
> instructed to do so. As I know less about locales than a common
> cow about jet-engines, I'm utterly unable to describe this problem
> much further (please see attached error messages).
> 
> --- clip ---
> Generating locales...
>   fi_FI.ISO-8859-1... done
>   fi_FI.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
>   ja_JP.eucJP...
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/ja_JP:14876: LC_MESSAGES: unknown character in field `yesexpr'
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/ja_JP:14878: LC_MESSAGES: unknown character in field `noexpr'
[...]

It looks like you added
  ja_JP.eucJP eucJP
instead of
  ja_JP.eucJP EUC-JP
in your /etc/locale.gen.
As told in locale.gen(5), you have to select charsets amongst those
found under /usr/share/i18n/charmaps.
Hmmm, wait a minute, there is a typo in this manual page, here is a
patch.

Denis

Index: locale.gen.5
===================================================================
--- locale.gen.5	(revision 922)
+++ locale.gen.5	(working copy)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 where <locale> is one of the locales given in 
 .B /usr/share/i18n/locales
 and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in 
-.B /usr/share/i18n/charsets
+.B /usr/share/i18n/charmaps
 
 The
 .B locale-gen