Bug#243237: xlibs-data: locale.alias ineffective

[Yann Vernier <yann@algonet.se>]

Package: xlibs-data
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
Followup-For: Bug #243237

A friend hit this problem, having a debconf configured LANG variable he
couldn't type our national letters in Sylpheed. xlibs-data contains a
file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias which appears to have no
function:

yann@donkey:~$ grep sv_SE.*8859-15
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias
sv_SE.iso885915                         sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE@euro                                      sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE.ISO-8859-15@euro                          sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE.iso885915:                                sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE@euro:                                     sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE.ISO-8859-15@euro:                         sv_SE.ISO8859-15
yann@donkey:~$ LANG=sv_SE@euro gtkfontsel

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
yann@donkey:~$ LANG=sv_SE gtkfontsel
yann@donkey:~$

Other variants mentioned in the file also fail. sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 is not
mentioned and fails, sv_SE.ISO8859-15 is accepted. Sylpheed picks horrid
fonts when using that locale, but that's most likely not a xlibs
problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-k7
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE

-- no debconf information