Re: Bug#79530: locales: locale-gen generates locale-files with incorrect names
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:34:53PM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
> ++ 13/12/00 11:55 -0500 - Ben Collins:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:49:09PM +0300, nidd@debian.org wrote:
> > > locale-gen generates incorrect locale-files. For example if I insert
> > > this line:
> > > ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R
> > > in /etc/locale.gen, it generates locale in /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r
> > > directory. Its not a bug of locale-gen, its a feature of
> > > localedef, that "normalizes" locale names. This feature make life
> > > hard from people with .charset locales (japanese .eucJP for eg.),
> > > because programs check directories with charset name in upper
> > > characters (for example qt, gtk and XFree86). Me and Alexander
> > > Kotelnikov (sacha@debian.org), patched the locale-gen, so it works
> > > with such locales. Here it is:
> > >
> > > <skip>
> >
> > I cannot implement this. Upstream claims that normalizing is part of the
> > spec, and is the Right Thing, so I will not go against the grain here.
> > Programs that try to read these files directly will need to take this into
> > account and do the Right Thing themselves.
>
> It seems that this is trouble not only for us russians, but for
> japanese people. I'm Ccing this mail to debian-i18n and
> debian-russian, if you don't know how many users have trouble with this
> silly Drepper's ``Right Thing''. (BTW, in previous version of libc,
> there was exception for ru_RU.KOI8-R and Makefiles generated KOI8-R,
> not koi8r locale)
Check the libc-alpha archives, this has been discussed to death already.
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