<p><a href="MAINTAINERS.txt">Current locales and their
maintainers</a></p>
+ <p><a href="howto.html">Locale writing howto</a></p>
+
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all the fixes included in the official releases of the
source.</p>
+ <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
+
+ <p>A mailing list for discussing the GNU libc locales have been
+ created. It is
+ <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/">archived on
+ the web</a>. Send an email to
+ <tt>libc-locales-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt> to subscribe.</p>
+
<h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
<p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
</ul>
- <p>To make it easier to compare locales with each other, I
- recommend using the same order in all locales. Any order will
- do, so I picked a order used in several locales, and decided to
- recommend this order:</p>
-
- <ol>
- <li>LC_IDENTIFICATION
- <li>LC_CTYPE
- <li>LC_COLLATE
- <li>LC_MONETARY
- <li>LC_NUMERIC
- <li>LC_TIME
- <li>LC_MESSAGES
- <li>LC_PAPER
- <li>LC_NAME
- <li>LC_ADDRESS
- <li>LC_TELEPHONE
- <li>LC_MEASUREMENT
- </ol>
+ <h2>Changing a locale</h2>
+
+ <p>Getting locale fixes past the glibc maintainers is still a
+ kind of black art to me. This is my first try to document
+ what I believe is needed to get the glibc maintainers to
+ accept a change.</p>
+
+ <p>Register the change request in bugzilla, to make sure the
+ request is not forgotten, and that all relevant info is
+ collected in one place.</p>
+
+ <p>It is always good to involve the original locale author when
+ submitting a change request. Getting the original author to
+ agree to the change increases the chance that the glibc
+ maintainers will accept it. It is also an idea to involve the
+ contributors to the locale. This is why I maintain a list of
+ authors and contributors for each locale. The people listed
+ there should be emailed as well, and asked for comments. If
+ the contributors agree as well, the change is less likely to
+ be controversial, and more likely to be accepted by the glibc
+ maintainers.</p>
+
+ <p>Give references to official standards and specifications
+ documenting the correct locale behavoiur. URLs are fine. If
+ such references are impossible to find, official-looking pages
+ might have the same effect. Another idea is to show
+ locale-specific use of dates and other formatting on
+ country-official web pages and other publications.</p>
+
+ <p>If all of these are present, the change is likely to be
+ accepted by the glibc maintainer. If some of them are missing
+ (like the author is unavailable, no standard and
+ specifications exist, and it is hard to document the correct
+ format, I do not know how to get the change past the glibc
+ maintainers.</p>
<h2>Locale related problem reports</h2>
nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a></strike>
<br>Same as libc/2931
- <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
- wrong charset for et_EE</a>
+ <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/208238">#208238: locales:
+ wrong charset for et_EE</a></strike>
<li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/211607">#211607: Bad catalan
locale currency format</a></strike>
<li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/214414">#214414: Incorrect
date format in en_NZ</a>
- <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
- locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a>
+ <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/215466">#215466: fi_FI
+ locale doesn't contain first_weekday</a></strike>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00021.html">2003-07-06
Correct wrong date format for locale sl_SI (PR libc/5059)</a>
- <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
- Some small locale fixes</a>
-
<li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-08/msg00082.html">2003-08-13
Updated/new locales for sr_CS (Serbia and Montenegro)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
- Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></li>
-
<li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
Add test for international currency formatting.</a> and
<a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00135.html">2003-11-23
<li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00127.html">2003-11-23
Correct formatting of internatinal currency</a></strong></li>
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00133.html">2003-11-23
+ Allow quotes in tst-fmon.data, and make output easier to read</a></strong></li>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00022.html">2003-07-06
+ Some small locale fixes</a></strong></li>
+
</ul>
<h2>Missing locales?</h2>
</table>
- <h2>Mailing list for discussing locales</h2>
+ <h2>Related web pages</h2>
- <p>A mailing list for discussing the GNU libc locales have been
- created. It is
- <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/">archived on
- the web</a>. Send an email to
- <tt>libc-locales-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt> to subscribe.</p>
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>AIX locale documentation,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/Locale_Definition.htm">definition</a>,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_COLLATE.htm">LC_COLLATE</a>,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_CTYPE.htm">LC_CTYPE</a>,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_MESSAGES.htm">LC_MESSAGES</a>,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_MONETARY.htm">LC_MONETARY</a>,
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_NUMERIC.htm">LC_NUMERIC</a> and
+ <a href="http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/LC_TIME.htm">LC_TIME</a>.</li>
+
+ </ul>
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- <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
+ <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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