Bug#347173: glibc: Romanian days are written with mixed case letters/Romanian alplhabet reordered

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:41:10AM +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> > Attached are the results of the tests. What I can say is that:
> > - as one can easily see the default ro_RO locale is broken (not recognised)
> > - the ro_RO.ISO-8859-16 is not recognised (I feel that I am doing
> > something wrong here)
> 
> I made the patching over the glibc with my patch and tested it. The
> ro_RO locale looks the same as in the tests for Ionel's patch.
> Apparently there is something that I don't understand in the gentoo
> system. (testing with Gentoo as I don't have an Internet connection at
> home and my appartment mate has gentoo installed).
> So I misjudged when I said that the ro_RO locale is broken.

You can check with 'localedef --help' where locales are looked at;
on Debian:
  System's directory for character maps : /usr/share/i18n/charmaps
                         repertoire maps: /usr/share/i18n/repertoiremaps
                         locale path    : /usr/lib/locale:/usr/share/i18n

The other important point is whether your system has a single archive
file (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) or multiple directories
(/usr/lib/locale/ro_RO.utf8, etc.).  This is controlled by the
--no-archive flag of localedef.  You can generate both to make sure that
you are overriding system locales:
  $ localedef -i /path/to/ro_RO -f UTF-8 ro_RO.UTF-8
  $ localedef -i /path/to/ro_RO -f UTF-8 --no-archive ro_RO.UTF-8
Maybe gentoo modified the default behavior, and added an --archive flag
instead?  If an absolute path is not specified for the -i flag, locale
source file is searched in . and $I18NPATH. 
You check then your changes by requesting some informations:
  $ locale -k charmap day abday mon abmon

But if you want to compare your locale to the default one, a simpler
alternative is to build your locale into a different location, for
instance:
  $ export LOCPATH=$(mktemp -d)
  $ localedef -i /path/to/ro_RO -f UTF-8 $LOCPATH/ro_RO.UTF-8
  $ locale -k charmap day abday mon abmon
Compare with default settings
  $ unset LOCPATH
  $ locale -k charmap day abday mon abmon
If you do not find your changes on output, you can run
  $ strace -e open locale -k charmap day abday mon abmon
to check which files are read.

Denis