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  14     <h1>GNU libc (glibc) locale patch page</h1>
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  18       <h2>Related pages</h2>
  19       <ul>
  20         <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU libc homepage</a></li>
  21
  22         <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/">GNU libc jumpstation</a></li>
  23
  24         <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/?cvsroot=glibc">GNU libc CVSweb</a></li>
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  26         <li><a href="http://www.openi18n.org/specs/ldml/">OpenI18n The
  27             Locale Data Markup Language Specification</a></li>
  28
  29         <li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/">Unicode
  30             Standard Annex #24 Script Names</a></li>
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  35       <p><a href="MAINTAINERS.txt">Current locales and their
  36           maintainers</a></p>
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  42     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  43       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  44       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  45       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  46       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  47       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  48       source.</p>
  49
  50     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  51
  52     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  53       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  54       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  55       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  56       authoritative.</p>
  57
  58     <ul>
  59
  60       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  61
  62       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  63           9945:2002</a></li>
  64
  65       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  66           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  67           Edition</a></li>
  68
  69       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  70           FCD 14652</a></li>
  71
  72       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  73           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  74
  75       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  76           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
  77
  78     </ul>
  79
  80     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  81       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  82       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  83       recommend this order:</p>
  84
  85     <ol>
  86       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  87       <li>LC_CTYPE
  88       <li>LC_COLLATE
  89       <li>LC_MONETARY
  90       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  91       <li>LC_TIME
  92       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  93       <li>LC_PAPER
  94       <li>LC_NAME
  95       <li>LC_ADDRESS
  96       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
  97       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
  98     </ol>
  99
 100     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
 101
 102     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
 103
 104       <p>The GNATS database is dead at the moment (2003-10-31), and
 105         has been dead since this summer.</p>
 106
 107     <ul>
 108
 109       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
 110         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
 111
 112       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
 113         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 114
 115       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 116         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 117
 118       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 119
 120       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 121         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 122
 123      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 124         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 125
 126       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 127
 128       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 129
 130       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 131         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 132         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 133
 134       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 135         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 136
 137       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 138         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 139
 140       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 141         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 142         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 143
 144     </ul>
 145
 146     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 147
 148     <ul>
 149
 150       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 151           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 152         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 153
 154       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 155           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 156         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 157
 158       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 159             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 160             day names</a></strike>
 161           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 162           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 163           2003-06-16)
 164
 165       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 166             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 167           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 168           an_ES)
 169
 170       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 171           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 172           only?)</a>
 173
 174       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 175           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
 176         <br>Same as libc/2931
 177
 178       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
 179           wrong charset for et_EE</a>
 180
 181       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
 182           locale currency format</a></strike>
 183
 184       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214107">#214107: locales:
 185           en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char</a>
 186
 187       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
 188           date format in en_NZ</a>
 189
 190       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
 191           locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
 192
 193     </ul>
 194
 195     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 196
 197     <ul>
 198
 199       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 200           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 201           monday)</a></strike>
 202         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 203
 204       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 205           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 206         <br>Same as libc/2931
 207
 208     </ul>
 209
 210     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 211
 212     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 213     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 214     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 215
 216     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 217
 218     <ul>
 219
 220       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 221           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 222
 223
 224       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 225           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 226
 227       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 228           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 229
 230       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 231           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 232
 233       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 234             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 235             rejected)</a></strike>
 236
 237       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 238             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 239
 240       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 241           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 242
 243       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 244           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a></strike>
 245
 246       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
 247             Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
 248
 249       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 250           Some small locale fixes</a>
 251
 252       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
 253             Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
 254
 255       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
 256           Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a>
 257
 258       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
 259             Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></li>
 260
 261       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 262           Add test for international currency formatting.</a> and
 263           <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00135.html">2003-11-23
 264             Add test for international currency formatting (updated)</a></li>
 265
 266       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00016.html">2004-01-01
 267             Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15</a> (rejected)</strike></li>
 268
 269     </ul>
 270
 271     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 272
 273     <ul>
 274
 275       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 276             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 277             (commited)</a></strong>
 278
 279       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 280             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong>
 281
 282       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 283             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong>
 284
 285       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 286             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong>
 287
 288       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 289             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 290             (commited)</a></strong>
 291
 292       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 293             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 294             (commited)</a></strong>
 295
 296       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 297             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 298             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong>
 299
 300       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00017.html">2003-07-05
 301             Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea</a></strong></li>
 302
 303       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 304             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 305             segfault (commited)</a></strong>
 306
 307       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 308           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a></strong>
 309
 310       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00091.html">2003-09-11
 311           Locales for Uzbekistan (uz_UZ and uz_UZ@Cyrl)</a></strong>
 312
 313       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00126.html">2003-11-23
 314           Only check the currency name against 4217, exclude the space</a></strong>
 315
 316       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00128.html">2003-11-23
 317           Monday is first work and week day in Finland</a></strong>
 318
 319       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00129.html">2003-11-23
 320             Remove unused file localedata/locales/translit_et</a></li></strong>
 321
 322       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00004.html">2004-01-01
 323             Make strfmon() more POSIX-compliant</a></li></strong>
 324
 325       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00007.html">2004-01-01
 326             Report which of the sorting methods that fail</a></li></strong>
 327
 328     </ul>
 329
 330       <h2>Missing locales?</h2>
 331
 332       <p>Bruno Haible told me about a
 333         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/language_codes.asp">list
 334           of language codes</a> available from Microsoft, and
 335           discovered that some of these are missing as locales in
 336           current GNU libc.</p>
 337
 338       <table>
 339           <tr>
 340             <th>Locale code</th>
 341             <th>Language</th>
 342             <th>Region/Country</th>
 343           </tr>
 344
 345           <tr>
 346             <td>bnt_TZ
 347             <td>Sutu
 348             <td>Tanzania
 349             <td>(MS calls this one "sx" - not ISO 639)
 350               <br>(see also http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU)
 351               <br>Correct code st_LS / nso_ZA ?
 352           </tr>
 353
 354           <tr>
 355             <td>de_LI
 356             <td>German
 357             <td>Liechtenstein
 358           </tr>
 359
 360           <tr>
 361             <td>en_JM
 362             <td>English
 363             <td>Jamaica
 364           </tr>
 365
 366           <tr>
 367             <td>en_GD
 368             <td>English
 369             <td>Caribbean
 370           </tr>
 371
 372           <tr>
 373             <td>en_BZ
 374             <td>English
 375             <td>Belize
 376           </tr>
 377
 378           <tr>
 379             <td>en_TT
 380             <td>English
 381             <td>Trinidad
 382           </tr>
 383
 384           <tr>
 385             <td>gd_IE
 386             <td>Gaelic
 387             <td>Ireland
 388           </tr>
 389
 390           <tr>
 391             <td>rm_CH
 392             <td>Rhaeto-Romanic
 393             <td>Switzerland
 394           </tr>
 395
 396           <tr>
 397             <td>ro_MD
 398             <td>Romanian
 399             <td>Moldavia
 400             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 401           </tr>
 402
 403           <tr>
 404             <td>ru_MD
 405             <td>Russian
 406             <td>Moldavia
 407             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 408           </tr>
 409
 410           <tr>
 411             <td>ts_ZA
 412             <td>Tsonga
 413             <td>South Africa
 414             <td>(see also http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO)
 415           </tr>
 416
 417           <tr>
 418             <td>tn_BW
 419             <td>Tswana
 420             <td>Botswana
 421             <td>(see also http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW)
 422           </tr>
 423
 424           <tr>
 425             <td>ven_ZA
 426             <td>Venda
 427             <td>South Africa
 428             <td>(not sure about ISO 639 code: "ve" or "ven")
 429               <br>(see also http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN)
 430           </tr>
 431
 432           <tr>
 433             <td>wen_DE
 434             <td>Sorbian
 435             <td>Germany
 436               <td>(MS calls this one "sb" - not ISO 639)
 437               <br>(see also http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN)
 438           </tr>
 439
 440       </table>
 441
 442       <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
 443
 444       <p>I'm interested in creating a new mailinglist for discussiong
 445         the GNU libc locales.  It would be a forum where we can
 446         discuss how to write locales and how locales should behave,
 447         without drowning in the technical discussions about linker
 448         problems and syscall conventions.  Roland McGrath told me that
 449         such list could be created if there is a significant number of
 450         people interested in being on such list, and not interested in
 451         being on libc-alpha.</p>
 452
 453       <p>The following people have expressed their interest in joining
 454         such list.  If you are interested in such list, please send me
 455         an email.</p>
 456
 457       <ul>
 458
 459         <li>Danilo Segan</li>
 460         <li>Ionel Mugurel Ciobica</li>
 461         <li>Volodymyr M. Lisivka</li>
 462         <li>Christian Rose</li>
 463         <li>Mashrab Kuvatov</li>
 464         <li>Manuel Novoa III</li>
 465         <li>Petter Reinholdtsen</li>
 466       </ul>
 467
 468     </div>
 469     <hr>
 470     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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