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