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