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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>
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  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>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     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  87       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  88       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  89       recommend this order:</p>
  90
  91     <ol>
  92       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  93       <li>LC_CTYPE
  94       <li>LC_COLLATE
  95       <li>LC_MONETARY
  96       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  97       <li>LC_TIME
  98       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  99       <li>LC_PAPER
 100       <li>LC_NAME
 101       <li>LC_ADDRESS
 102       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
 103       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
 104     </ol>
 105
 106     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
 107
 108     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
 109
 110       <p>The GNATS database is dead at the moment (2003-10-31), and
 111         has been dead since this summer.</p>
 112
 113     <ul>
 114
 115       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
 116         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
 117
 118       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
 119         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 120
 121       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 122         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 123
 124       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 125
 126       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 127         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 128
 129      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 130         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 131
 132       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 133
 134       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 135
 136       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 137         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 138         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 139
 140       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 141         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 142
 143       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 144         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 145
 146       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 147         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 148         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 149
 150     </ul>
 151
 152     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 153
 154     <ul>
 155
 156       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 157           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 158         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 159
 160       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 161           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 162         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 163
 164       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 165             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 166             day names</a></strike>
 167           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 168           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 169           2003-06-16)
 170
 171       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 172             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 173           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 174           an_ES)
 175
 176       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 177           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 178           only?)</a>
 179
 180       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 181           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
 182         <br>Same as libc/2931
 183
 184       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
 185           wrong charset for et_EE</a>
 186
 187       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
 188           locale currency format</a></strike>
 189
 190       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214107">#214107: locales:
 191           en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char</a>
 192
 193       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
 194           date format in en_NZ</a>
 195
 196       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
 197           locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
 198
 199     </ul>
 200
 201     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 202
 203     <ul>
 204
 205       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 206           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 207           monday)</a></strike>
 208         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 209
 210       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 211           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 212         <br>Same as libc/2931
 213
 214     </ul>
 215
 216     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 217
 218     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 219     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 220     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 221
 222     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 223
 224     <ul>
 225
 226       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 227           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 228
 229
 230       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 231           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 232
 233       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 234           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 235
 236       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 237           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 238
 239       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 240             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 241             rejected)</a></strike>
 242
 243       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 244             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 245
 246       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 247           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 248
 249       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 250           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a></strike>
 251
 252       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
 253             Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
 254
 255       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
 256             Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
 257
 258       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 259           Add test for international currency formatting.</a> and
 260           <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00135.html">2003-11-23
 261             Add test for international currency formatting (updated)</a></li>
 262
 263       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00016.html">2004-01-01
 264             Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15</a> (rejected)</strike></li>
 265
 266     </ul>
 267
 268     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 269
 270     <ul>
 271
 272       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 273             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 274             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 275
 276       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 277             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong></li>
 278
 279       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 280             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong></li>
 281
 282       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 283             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong></li>
 284
 285       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 286             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 287             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 288
 289       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 290             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 291             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 292
 293       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 294             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 295             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong></li>
 296
 297       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00017.html">2003-07-05
 298             Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea</a></strong></li>
 299
 300       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 301             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 302             segfault (commited)</a></strong></li>
 303
 304       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 305           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a></strong></li>
 306
 307       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00091.html">2003-09-11
 308           Locales for Uzbekistan (uz_UZ and uz_UZ@Cyrl)</a></strong></li>
 309
 310       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00126.html">2003-11-23
 311           Only check the currency name against 4217, exclude the space</a></strong></li>
 312
 313       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00128.html">2003-11-23
 314           Monday is first work and week day in Finland</a></strong></li>
 315
 316       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00129.html">2003-11-23
 317             Remove unused file localedata/locales/translit_et</a></strong></li>
 318
 319       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00004.html">2004-01-01
 320             Make strfmon() more POSIX-compliant</a></strong></li>
 321
 322       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00007.html">2004-01-01
 323             Report which of the sorting methods that fail</a></strong></li>
 324
 325       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
 326           Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a></strong></li>
 327
 328       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
 329             Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></strong></li>
 330
 331       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 332           Some small locale fixes</a></strong></li>
 333
 334     </ul>
 335
 336       <h2>Missing locales?</h2>
 337
 338       <p>Bruno Haible told me about a
 339         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/language_codes.asp">list
 340           of language codes</a> available from Microsoft, and
 341           discovered that some of these are missing as locales in
 342           current GNU libc.</p>
 343
 344       <table>
 345           <tr>
 346             <th>Locale code</th>
 347             <th>Language</th>
 348             <th>Region/Country</th>
 349           </tr>
 350
 351           <tr>
 352             <td>bnt_TZ
 353             <td>Sutu
 354             <td>Tanzania
 355             <td>(MS calls this one "sx" - not ISO 639)
 356               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU</a>)
 357               <br>Correct code st_LS / nso_ZA ?
 358           </tr>
 359
 360           <tr>
 361             <td>de_LI
 362             <td>German
 363             <td>Liechtenstein
 364           </tr>
 365
 366           <tr>
 367             <td>en_JM
 368             <td>English
 369             <td>Jamaica
 370           </tr>
 371
 372           <tr>
 373             <td>en_GD
 374             <td>English
 375             <td>Caribbean
 376           </tr>
 377
 378           <tr>
 379             <td>en_BZ
 380             <td>English
 381             <td>Belize
 382           </tr>
 383
 384           <tr>
 385             <td>en_TT
 386             <td>English
 387             <td>Trinidad
 388           </tr>
 389
 390           <tr>
 391             <td>gd_IE
 392             <td>Gaelic
 393             <td>Ireland
 394           </tr>
 395
 396           <tr>
 397             <td>rm_CH
 398             <td>Rhaeto-Romanic
 399             <td>Switzerland
 400           </tr>
 401
 402           <tr>
 403             <td>ro_MD
 404             <td>Romanian
 405             <td>Moldavia
 406             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 407           </tr>
 408
 409           <tr>
 410             <td>ru_MD
 411             <td>Russian
 412             <td>Moldavia
 413             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 414           </tr>
 415
 416           <tr>
 417             <td>ts_ZA
 418             <td>Tsonga
 419             <td>South Africa
 420             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO</a>)
 421           </tr>
 422
 423           <tr>
 424             <td>tn_BW
 425             <td>Tswana
 426             <td>Botswana
 427             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW</a>)
 428           </tr>
 429
 430           <tr>
 431             <td>ven_ZA
 432             <td>Venda
 433             <td>South Africa
 434             <td>(not sure about ISO 639 code: "ve" or "ven")
 435               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN</a>)
 436           </tr>
 437
 438           <tr>
 439             <td>wen_DE
 440             <td>Sorbian
 441             <td>Germany
 442               <td>(MS calls this one "sb" - not ISO 639)
 443               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN</a>)
 444           </tr>
 445
 446       </table>
 447
 448       <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
 449
 450       <p>A mailing list for discussing the GNU libc locales have been
 451       created.  It is
 452       <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/">archived on
 453       the web</a>.  Send an email to
 454       <tt>libc-locales-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt> to subscribe.</p>
 455
 456     </div>
 457     <hr>
 458     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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