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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/bugzilla/">GNU libc bugzilla</a></li>
  25
  26         <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=glibc&component=localedata&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED">GNU libc locale bugs</a></li>
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  28         <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/?cvsroot=glibc">GNU libc CVSweb</a></li>
  29
  30         <li><a href="http://www.openi18n.org/specs/ldml/">OpenI18n The
  31             Locale Data Markup Language Specification</a></li>
  32
  33         <li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/">Unicode
  34             Standard Annex #24 Script Names</a></li>
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  36       </ul>
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  38
  39       <p><a href="MAINTAINERS.txt">Current locales and their
  40           maintainers</a></p>
  41
  42       <p><a href="howto.html">Locale writing howto</a></p>
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  47
  48     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  49       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  50       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  51       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  52       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  53       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  54       source.</p>
  55
  56     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  57
  58     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  59       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  60       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  61       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  62       authoritative.</p>
  63
  64     <ul>
  65
  66       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  67
  68       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  69           9945:2002</a></li>
  70
  71       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  72           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  73           Edition</a></li>
  74
  75       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  76           FCD 14652</a></li>
  77
  78       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  79           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  80
  81       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  82           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
  83
  84     </ul>
  85
  86     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
  87
  88     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
  89
  90       <p>The GNATS database is dead at the moment (2003-10-31), and
  91         has been dead since this summer.</p>
  92
  93     <ul>
  94
  95       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
  96         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
  97
  98       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
  99         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 100
 101       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 102         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 103
 104       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 105
 106       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 107         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 108
 109      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 110         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 111
 112       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 113
 114       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 115
 116       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 117         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 118         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 119
 120       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 121         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 122
 123       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 124         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 125
 126       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 127         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 128         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 129
 130     </ul>
 131
 132     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 133
 134     <ul>
 135
 136       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 137           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 138         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 139
 140       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 141           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 142         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 143
 144       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 145             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 146             day names</a></strike>
 147           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 148           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 149           2003-06-16)
 150
 151       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 152             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 153           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 154           an_ES)
 155
 156       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 157           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 158           only?)</a>
 159
 160       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 161           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
 162         <br>Same as libc/2931
 163
 164       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
 165           wrong charset for et_EE</a>
 166
 167       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
 168           locale currency format</a></strike>
 169
 170       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214107">#214107: locales:
 171           en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char</a>
 172
 173       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
 174           date format in en_NZ</a>
 175
 176       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
 177           locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
 178
 179     </ul>
 180
 181     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 182
 183     <ul>
 184
 185       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 186           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 187           monday)</a></strike>
 188         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 189
 190       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 191           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 192         <br>Same as libc/2931
 193
 194     </ul>
 195
 196     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 197
 198     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 199     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 200     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 201
 202     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 203
 204     <ul>
 205
 206       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 207           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 208
 209
 210       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 211           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 212
 213       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 214           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 215
 216       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 217           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 218
 219       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 220             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 221             rejected)</a></strike>
 222
 223       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 224             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 225
 226       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 227           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 228
 229       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 230           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a></strike>
 231
 232       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
 233             Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
 234
 235       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
 236             Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
 237
 238       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 239           Add test for international currency formatting.</a> and
 240           <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00135.html">2003-11-23
 241             Add test for international currency formatting (updated)</a></li>
 242
 243       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00016.html">2004-01-01
 244             Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15</a> (rejected)</strike></li>
 245
 246     </ul>
 247
 248     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 249
 250     <ul>
 251
 252       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 253             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 254             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 255
 256       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 257             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong></li>
 258
 259       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 260             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong></li>
 261
 262       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 263             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong></li>
 264
 265       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 266             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 267             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 268
 269       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 270             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 271             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 272
 273       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 274             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 275             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong></li>
 276
 277       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00017.html">2003-07-05
 278             Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea</a></strong></li>
 279
 280       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 281             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 282             segfault (commited)</a></strong></li>
 283
 284       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 285           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a></strong></li>
 286
 287       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00091.html">2003-09-11
 288           Locales for Uzbekistan (uz_UZ and uz_UZ@Cyrl)</a></strong></li>
 289
 290       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00126.html">2003-11-23
 291           Only check the currency name against 4217, exclude the space</a></strong></li>
 292
 293       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00128.html">2003-11-23
 294           Monday is first work and week day in Finland</a></strong></li>
 295
 296       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00129.html">2003-11-23
 297             Remove unused file localedata/locales/translit_et</a></strong></li>
 298
 299       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00004.html">2004-01-01
 300             Make strfmon() more POSIX-compliant</a></strong></li>
 301
 302       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00007.html">2004-01-01
 303             Report which of the sorting methods that fail</a></strong></li>
 304
 305       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
 306           Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a></strong></li>
 307
 308       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
 309             Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></strong></li>
 310
 311       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 312           Some small locale fixes</a></strong></li>
 313
 314     </ul>
 315
 316       <h2>Missing locales?</h2>
 317
 318       <p>Bruno Haible told me about a
 319         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/language_codes.asp">list
 320           of language codes</a> available from Microsoft, and
 321           discovered that some of these are missing as locales in
 322           current GNU libc.</p>
 323
 324       <table>
 325           <tr>
 326             <th>Locale code</th>
 327             <th>Language</th>
 328             <th>Region/Country</th>
 329           </tr>
 330
 331           <tr>
 332             <td>bnt_TZ
 333             <td>Sutu
 334             <td>Tanzania
 335             <td>(MS calls this one "sx" - not ISO 639)
 336               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU</a>)
 337               <br>Correct code st_LS / nso_ZA ?
 338           </tr>
 339
 340           <tr>
 341             <td>de_LI
 342             <td>German
 343             <td>Liechtenstein
 344           </tr>
 345
 346           <tr>
 347             <td>en_JM
 348             <td>English
 349             <td>Jamaica
 350           </tr>
 351
 352           <tr>
 353             <td>en_GD
 354             <td>English
 355             <td>Caribbean
 356           </tr>
 357
 358           <tr>
 359             <td>en_BZ
 360             <td>English
 361             <td>Belize
 362           </tr>
 363
 364           <tr>
 365             <td>en_TT
 366             <td>English
 367             <td>Trinidad
 368           </tr>
 369
 370           <tr>
 371             <td>gd_IE
 372             <td>Gaelic
 373             <td>Ireland
 374           </tr>
 375
 376           <tr>
 377             <td>rm_CH
 378             <td>Rhaeto-Romanic
 379             <td>Switzerland
 380           </tr>
 381
 382           <tr>
 383             <td>ro_MD
 384             <td>Romanian
 385             <td>Moldavia
 386             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 387           </tr>
 388
 389           <tr>
 390             <td>ru_MD
 391             <td>Russian
 392             <td>Moldavia
 393             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 394           </tr>
 395
 396           <tr>
 397             <td>ts_ZA
 398             <td>Tsonga
 399             <td>South Africa
 400             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO</a>)
 401           </tr>
 402
 403           <tr>
 404             <td>tn_BW
 405             <td>Tswana
 406             <td>Botswana
 407             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW</a>)
 408           </tr>
 409
 410           <tr>
 411             <td>ven_ZA
 412             <td>Venda
 413             <td>South Africa
 414             <td>(not sure about ISO 639 code: "ve" or "ven")
 415               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN</a>)
 416           </tr>
 417
 418           <tr>
 419             <td>wen_DE
 420             <td>Sorbian
 421             <td>Germany
 422               <td>(MS calls this one "sb" - not ISO 639)
 423               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN</a>)
 424           </tr>
 425
 426       </table>
 427
 428       <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
 429
 430       <p>A mailing list for discussing the GNU libc locales have been
 431       created.  It is
 432       <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/">archived on
 433       the web</a>.  Send an email to
 434       <tt>libc-locales-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt> to subscribe.</p>
 435
 436     </div>
 437     <hr>
 438     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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