linux/glibc/index.html

   1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   2         "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
   3 <html lang="en">
   4   <head>
   5     <title>GNU libc (glibc) locale patch page</title>
   6     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
   7     <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
   8     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://i18n.skolelinux.no/stilsett.css" id="nn1">
   9     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://i18n.skolelinux.no/utskrift.css" media="print" id="nn2">
  10   </head>
  11
  12   <body>
  13     <div class="topp">
  14     <h1>GNU libc (glibc) locale patch page</h1>
  15     </div>
  16
  17     <div class="meny">
  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>
  27
  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>
  35
  36       </ul>
  37       <hr>
  38
  39       <p><a href="MAINTAINERS.txt">Current locales and their
  40           maintainers</a></p>
  41
  42     </div>
  43
  44     <div class="hovuddel">
  45
  46     <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
  47       collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
  48       problems and who to contact regarding the different locales.  It
  49       is a work in progress.  The page maintainer, Petter
  50       Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
  51       all the fixes included in the official releases of the
  52       source.</p>
  53
  54     <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
  55
  56     <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
  57       glibc is documented.  This list of references is at least
  58       pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
  59       even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
  60       authoritative.</p>
  61
  62     <ul>
  63
  64       <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
  65
  66       <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
  67           9945:2002</a></li>
  68
  69       <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
  70           Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
  71           Edition</a></li>
  72
  73       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
  74           FCD 14652</a></li>
  75
  76       <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
  77           14652:1999(E)</a></li>
  78
  79       <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
  80           TR 14652:2003</a></li>
  81
  82     </ul>
  83
  84     <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
  85       recommend using the same order in all locales.  Any order will
  86       do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
  87       recommend this order:</p>
  88
  89     <ol>
  90       <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
  91       <li>LC_CTYPE
  92       <li>LC_COLLATE
  93       <li>LC_MONETARY
  94       <li>LC_NUMERIC
  95       <li>LC_TIME
  96       <li>LC_MESSAGES
  97       <li>LC_PAPER
  98       <li>LC_NAME
  99       <li>LC_ADDRESS
 100       <li>LC_TELEPHONE
 101       <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
 102     </ol>
 103
 104     <h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
 105
 106     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
 107
 108       <p>The GNATS database is dead at the moment (2003-10-31), and
 109         has been dead since this summer.</p>
 110
 111     <ul>
 112
 113       <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
 114         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
 115
 116       <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
 117         <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
 118
 119       <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
 120         <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
 121
 122       <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
 123
 124       <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
 125         <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
 126
 127      <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
 128         "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
 129
 130       <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
 131
 132       <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
 133
 134       <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
 135         <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
 136         patch commited 2003-06-16)
 137
 138       <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
 139         <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
 140
 141       <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
 142         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 143
 144       <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
 145         <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
 146         patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
 147
 148     </ul>
 149
 150     <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
 151
 152     <ul>
 153
 154       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
 155           sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
 156         <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
 157
 158       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
 159           ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
 160         <br>(sent email to submitter)
 161
 162       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
 163             Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
 164             day names</a></strike>
 165           <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
 166           patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
 167           2003-06-16)
 168
 169       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
 170             locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
 171           <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
 172           an_ES)
 173
 174       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
 175           locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
 176           only?)</a>
 177
 178       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
 179           nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
 180         <br>Same as libc/2931
 181
 182       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
 183           wrong charset for et_EE</a>
 184
 185       <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
 186           locale currency format</a></strike>
 187
 188       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214107">#214107: locales:
 189           en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char</a>
 190
 191       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
 192           date format in en_NZ</a>
 193
 194       <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
 195           locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
 196
 197     </ul>
 198
 199     <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
 200
 201     <ul>
 202
 203       <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
 204           Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
 205           monday)</a></strike>
 206         <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
 207
 208       <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
 209           Norwegian locale in distro</a>
 210         <br>Same as libc/2931
 211
 212     </ul>
 213
 214     <h2>Patches submitted to the glibc maintainers</h2>
 215
 216     <p>If you know of some patches that should be listed here, please
 217     send me an email.  I want to track all relevant patches, not just
 218     the ones submitted by me.</p>
 219
 220     <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
 221
 222     <ul>
 223
 224       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
 225           Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
 226
 227
 228       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
 229           Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
 230
 231       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
 232           Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
 233
 234       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
 235           Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
 236
 237       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
 238             Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
 239             rejected)</a></strike>
 240
 241       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
 242             Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
 243
 244       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
 245           Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
 246
 247       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
 248           Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a></strike>
 249
 250       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
 251             Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
 252
 253       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
 254             Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
 255
 256       <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
 257           Add test for international currency formatting.</a> and
 258           <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00135.html">2003-11-23
 259             Add test for international currency formatting (updated)</a></li>
 260
 261       <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00016.html">2004-01-01
 262             Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15</a> (rejected)</strike></li>
 263
 264     </ul>
 265
 266     <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
 267
 268     <ul>
 269
 270       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
 271             Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
 272             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 273
 274       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
 275             Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong></li>
 276
 277       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
 278             Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong></li>
 279
 280       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
 281             Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong></li>
 282
 283       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
 284             Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
 285             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 286
 287       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
 288             Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
 289             (commited)</a></strong></li>
 290
 291       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
 292             Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
 293             SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong></li>
 294
 295       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00017.html">2003-07-05
 296             Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea</a></strong></li>
 297
 298       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
 299             Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
 300             segfault (commited)</a></strong></li>
 301
 302       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
 303           Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a></strong></li>
 304
 305       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/msg00091.html">2003-09-11
 306           Locales for Uzbekistan (uz_UZ and uz_UZ@Cyrl)</a></strong></li>
 307
 308       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00126.html">2003-11-23
 309           Only check the currency name against 4217, exclude the space</a></strong></li>
 310
 311       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00128.html">2003-11-23
 312           Monday is first work and week day in Finland</a></strong></li>
 313
 314       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00129.html">2003-11-23
 315             Remove unused file localedata/locales/translit_et</a></strong></li>
 316
 317       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00004.html">2004-01-01
 318             Make strfmon() more POSIX-compliant</a></strong></li>
 319
 320       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-01/msg00007.html">2004-01-01
 321             Report which of the sorting methods that fail</a></strong></li>
 322
 323       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
 324           Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a></strong></li>
 325
 326       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
 327             Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></strong></li>
 328
 329       <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
 330           Some small locale fixes</a></strong></li>
 331
 332     </ul>
 333
 334       <h2>Missing locales?</h2>
 335
 336       <p>Bruno Haible told me about a
 337         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/language_codes.asp">list
 338           of language codes</a> available from Microsoft, and
 339           discovered that some of these are missing as locales in
 340           current GNU libc.</p>
 341
 342       <table>
 343           <tr>
 344             <th>Locale code</th>
 345             <th>Language</th>
 346             <th>Region/Country</th>
 347           </tr>
 348
 349           <tr>
 350             <td>bnt_TZ
 351             <td>Sutu
 352             <td>Tanzania
 353             <td>(MS calls this one "sx" - not ISO 639)
 354               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU</a>)
 355               <br>Correct code st_LS / nso_ZA ?
 356           </tr>
 357
 358           <tr>
 359             <td>de_LI
 360             <td>German
 361             <td>Liechtenstein
 362           </tr>
 363
 364           <tr>
 365             <td>en_JM
 366             <td>English
 367             <td>Jamaica
 368           </tr>
 369
 370           <tr>
 371             <td>en_GD
 372             <td>English
 373             <td>Caribbean
 374           </tr>
 375
 376           <tr>
 377             <td>en_BZ
 378             <td>English
 379             <td>Belize
 380           </tr>
 381
 382           <tr>
 383             <td>en_TT
 384             <td>English
 385             <td>Trinidad
 386           </tr>
 387
 388           <tr>
 389             <td>gd_IE
 390             <td>Gaelic
 391             <td>Ireland
 392           </tr>
 393
 394           <tr>
 395             <td>rm_CH
 396             <td>Rhaeto-Romanic
 397             <td>Switzerland
 398           </tr>
 399
 400           <tr>
 401             <td>ro_MD
 402             <td>Romanian
 403             <td>Moldavia
 404             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 405           </tr>
 406
 407           <tr>
 408             <td>ru_MD
 409             <td>Russian
 410             <td>Moldavia
 411             <td>(MS calls this one "MO" - not ISO 3166)
 412           </tr>
 413
 414           <tr>
 415             <td>ts_ZA
 416             <td>Tsonga
 417             <td>South Africa
 418             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSO</a>)
 419           </tr>
 420
 421           <tr>
 422             <td>tn_BW
 423             <td>Tswana
 424             <td>Botswana
 425             <td>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TSW</a>)
 426           </tr>
 427
 428           <tr>
 429             <td>ven_ZA
 430             <td>Venda
 431             <td>South Africa
 432             <td>(not sure about ISO 639 code: "ve" or "ven")
 433               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VEN</a>)
 434           </tr>
 435
 436           <tr>
 437             <td>wen_DE
 438             <td>Sorbian
 439             <td>Germany
 440               <td>(MS calls this one "sb" - not ISO 639)
 441               <br>(see also <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WEN</a>)
 442           </tr>
 443
 444       </table>
 445
 446       <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
 447
 448       <p>A mailing list for discussing the GNU libc locales have been
 449       created.  It is
 450       <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/">archived on
 451       the web</a>.  Send an email to
 452       <tt>libc-locales-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt> to subscribe.</p>
 453
 454     </div>
 455     <hr>
 456     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
 457 <!-- Created: Tue Sep  2 00:10:31 CEST 2003 -->
 458 <!-- hhmts start -->
 459 Last modified: Sun Feb  8 13:16:59 CET 2004
 460 <!-- hhmts end -->
 461   </body>
 462 </html>