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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>
  25
  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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  37     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  38       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  39       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  40       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  41       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  42       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  43       source.</p>
  44
  45     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  46
  47     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  48       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  49       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  50       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  51       authoritative.</p>
  52
  53     <ul>
  54
  55       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  56
  57       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  58           9945:2002</a></li>
  59
  60       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  61           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  62           Edition</a></li>
  63
  64       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  65           FCD 14652</a></li>
  66
  67       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  68           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  69
  70       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  71           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
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  73     </ul>
  74
  75     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  76       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  77       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  78       recommend this order:</p>
  79
  80     <ol>
  81       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  82       <li>LC_CTYPE
  83       <li>LC_COLLATE
  84       <li>LC_MONETARY
  85       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  86       <li>LC_TIME
  87       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  88       <li>LC_PAPER
  89       <li>LC_NAME
  90       <li>LC_ADDRESS
  91       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
  92       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
  93     </ol>
  94
  95     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
  96
  97     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
  98
  99       <p>The GNATS database is dead at the moment (2003-10-31), and
 100         has been dead since this summer.</p>
 101
 102     <ul>
 103
 104       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
 105         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
 106
 107       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
 108         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 109
 110       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 111         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 112
 113       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 114
 115       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 116         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 117
 118      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 119         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 120
 121       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 122
 123       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 124
 125       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 126         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 127         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 128
 129       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 130         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 131
 132       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 133         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 134
 135       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 136         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 137         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 138
 139     </ul>
 140
 141     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 142
 143     <ul>
 144
 145       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 146           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 147         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 148
 149       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 150           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 151         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 152
 153       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 154             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 155             day names</a></strike>
 156           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 157           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 158           2003-06-16)
 159
 160       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 161             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 162           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 163           an_ES)
 164
 165       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 166           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 167           only?)</a>
 168
 169       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 170           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
 171         <br>Same as libc/2931
 172
 173       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
 174           wrong charset for et_EE</a>
 175
 176       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
 177           locale currency format</a></strike>
 178
 179       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214107">#214107: locales:
 180           en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char</a>
 181
 182       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
 183           date format in en_NZ</a>
 184
 185       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
 186           locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
 187
 188     </ul>
 189
 190     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 191
 192     <ul>
 193
 194       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 195           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 196           monday)</a></strike>
 197         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 198
 199       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 200           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 201         <br>Same as libc/2931
 202
 203     </ul>
 204
 205     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 206
 207     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 208     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 209     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 210
 211     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 212
 213     <ul>
 214
 215       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 216           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 217
 218
 219       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 220           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 221
 222       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 223           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 224
 225       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 226           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 227
 228       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 229             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 230             rejected)</a></strike>
 231
 232       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 233             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 234
 235       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 236           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 237
 238       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 239           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a></strike>
 240
 241       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 242           Add test for international currency formatting.</a>
 243
 244       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
 245             Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
 246
 247       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 248           Some small locale fixes</a>
 249
 250       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
 251             Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
 252
 253       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00126.html">2003-11-23
 254           Only check the currency name against 4217, exclude the space</a>
 255
 256       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
 257           Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a>
 258
 259       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00128.html">2003-11-23
 260           Monday is first work and week day in Finland</a>
 261
 262       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00129.html">2003-11-23
 263             Remove unused file localedata/locales/translit_et</a></li>
 264
 265     </ul>
 266
 267     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 268
 269     <ul>
 270
 271       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 272             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 273             (commited)</a></strong>
 274
 275       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 276             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong>
 277
 278       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 279             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong>
 280
 281       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 282             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong>
 283
 284       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 285             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 286             (commited)</a></strong>
 287
 288       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 289             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 290             (commited)</a></strong>
 291
 292       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 293             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 294             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong>
 295
 296       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00017.html">2003-07-05
 297             Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea</a></strong></li>
 298
 299       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 300             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 301             segfault (commited)</a></strong>
 302
 303       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 304           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a></strong>
 305
 306       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00091.html">2003-09-11
 307           Locales for Uzbekistan (uz_UZ and uz_UZ@Cyrl)</a></strong>
 308
 309     </ul>
 310
 311       <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
 312
 313       <p>I'm interested in creating a new mailinglist for discussiong
 314         the GNU libc locales.  It would be a forum where we can
 315         discuss how to write locales and how locales should behave,
 316         without drowning in the technical discussions about linker
 317         problems and syscall conventions.  Roland McGrath told me that
 318         such list could be created if there is a significant number of
 319         people interested in being on such list, and not interested in
 320         being on libc-alpha.</p>
 321
 322       <p>The following people have expressed their interest in joining
 323         such list.  If you are interested in such list, please send me
 324         an email.</p>
 325
 326       <ul>
 327
 328         <li>Danilo Segan</li>
 329         <li>Ionel Mugurel Ciobica</li>
 330         <li>Volodymyr M. Lisivka</li>
 331         <li>Christian Rose</li>
 332         <li>Mashrab Kuvatov</li>
 333         <li>Manuel Novoa III</li>
 334         <li>Petter Reinholdtsen</li>
 335       </ul>
 336
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 339     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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