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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.openi18n.org/specs/ldml/">OpenI18n The
  21             Locale Data Markup Language Specification</a></li>
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  23         <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/">GNU libc jumpstation</a></li>
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  25         <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU libc homepage</a></li>
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  32     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  33       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  34       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  35       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  36       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  37       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  38       source.</p>
  39
  40     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  41
  42     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  43       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  44       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  45       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  46       authoritative.</p>
  47
  48     <ul>
  49
  50       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  51
  52       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  53           9945:2002</a></li>
  54
  55       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  56           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  57           Edition</a></li>
  58
  59       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  60           FCD 14652</a></li>
  61
  62       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  63           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  64
  65       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  66           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
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  68     </ul>
  69
  70     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  71       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  72       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  73       recommend this order:</p>
  74
  75     <ol>
  76       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  77       <li>LC_CTYPE
  78       <li>LC_COLLATE
  79       <li>LC_MONETARY
  80       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  81       <li>LC_TIME
  82       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  83       <li>LC_PAPER
  84       <li>LC_NAME
  85       <li>LC_ADDRESS
  86       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
  87       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
  88     </ol>
  89
  90     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
  91
  92     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
  93
  94     <ul>
  95
  96       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
  97         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
  98
  99       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
 100         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 101
 102       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 103         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 104
 105       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 106
 107       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 108         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 109
 110      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 111         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 112
 113       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 114
 115       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 116
 117       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 118         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 119         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 120
 121       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 122         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 123
 124       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 125         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 126
 127       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 128         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 129         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 130
 131     </ul>
 132
 133     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 134
 135     <ul>
 136
 137       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 138           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 139         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 140
 141       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 142           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 143         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 144
 145       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 146             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 147             day names</a></strike>
 148           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 149           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 150           2003-06-16)
 151
 152       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 153             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 154           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 155           an_ES)
 156
 157       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 158           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 159           only?)</a>
 160
 161       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 162           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a>
 163         <br>Same as libc/2931
 164
 165     </ul>
 166
 167     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 168
 169     <ul>
 170
 171       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 172           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 173           monday)</a></strike>
 174         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 175
 176       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 177           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 178         <br>Same as libc/2931
 179
 180     </ul>
 181
 182     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 183
 184     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 185     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 186     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 187
 188     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 189
 190     <ul>
 191
 192       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 193           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 194
 195
 196       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 197           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 198
 199       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 200           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 201
 202       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 203           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 204
 205       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 206             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 207             rejected)</a></strike>
 208
 209       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 210             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 211
 212       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 213           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 214
 215       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 216           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a>
 217
 218       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 219           Add test for international currency formatting.</a>
 220
 221       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 222           Some small locale fixes</a>
 223
 224       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 225           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a>
 226
 227     </ul>
 228
 229     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 230
 231     <ul>
 232
 233       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 234             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 235             (commited)</a></strong>
 236
 237       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 238             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong>
 239
 240       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 241             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong>
 242
 243       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 244             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong>
 245
 246       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 247             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 248             (commited)</a></strong>
 249
 250       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 251             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 252             (commited)</a></strong>
 253
 254       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 255             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 256             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong>
 257
 258       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 259             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 260             segfault (commited)</a></strong>
 261
 262     </ul>
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 266     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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