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   8     <h1>GNU libc (glibc) locale patch page</h1>
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  10     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  11       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  12       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  13       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  14       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  15       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  16       source.</p>
  17
  18     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  19
  20     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  21       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  22       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  23       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  24       authoritative.</p>
  25
  26     <ul>
  27
  28       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  29
  30       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  31           9945:2002</a></li>
  32
  33       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  34           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  35           Edition</a></li>
  36
  37       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  38           FCD 14652</a></li>
  39
  40       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  41           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  42
  43       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  44           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
  45
  46     </ul>
  47
  48     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  49       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  50       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  51       recommend this order:</p>
  52
  53     <ol>
  54       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  55       <li>LC_CTYPE
  56       <li>LC_COLLATE
  57       <li>LC_MONETARY
  58       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  59       <li>LC_TIME
  60       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  61       <li>LC_PAPER
  62       <li>LC_NAME
  63       <li>LC_ADDRESS
  64       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
  65       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
  66     </ol>
  67
  68     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
  69
  70     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
  71
  72     <ul>
  73
  74       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
  75         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
  76
  77       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
  78         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
  79
  80       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
  81         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
  82
  83       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
  84
  85       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
  86         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
  87
  88      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
  89         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
  90
  91       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
  92
  93       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
  94
  95       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
  96         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
  97         patch commited 2003-06-16)
  98
  99       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 100         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 101
 102       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 103         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 104
 105       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 106         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 107         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 108
 109     </ul>
 110
 111     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 112
 113     <ul>
 114
 115       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 116           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 117         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 118
 119       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 120           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 121         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 122
 123       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 124             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 125             day names</a></strike>
 126           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 127           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 128           2003-06-16)
 129
 130       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 131             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 132           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 133           an_ES)
 134
 135       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 136           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 137           only?)</a>
 138
 139       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 140           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a>
 141         <br>Same as libc/2931
 142
 143     </ul>
 144
 145     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 146
 147     <ul>
 148
 149       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 150           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 151           monday)</a></strike>
 152         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 153
 154       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 155           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 156         <br>Same as libc/2931
 157
 158     </ul>
 159
 160     <h2>Patches submittet to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 161
 162     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 163
 164     <ul>
 165
 166       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 167           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 168
 169
 170       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 171           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 172
 173       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 174           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 175
 176       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 177           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 178
 179       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 180             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 181             rejected)</a></strike>
 182
 183       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 184             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 185
 186       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 187           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 188
 189       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 190           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a>
 191
 192       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 193           Add test for international currency formatting.</a>
 194
 195       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 196           Some small locale fixes</a>
 197
 198       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 199           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a>
 200
 201     </ul>
 202
 203     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 204
 205     <ul>
 206
 207       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 208             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 209             (commited)</a></strong>
 210
 211       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 212             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong>
 213
 214       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 215             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong>
 216
 217       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 218             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong>
 219
 220       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 221             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 222             (commited)</a></strong>
 223
 224       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 225             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 226             (commited)</a></strong>
 227
 228       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 229             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 230             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong>
 231
 232       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 233             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 234             segfault (commited)</a></strong>
 235
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 239     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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