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+ <h1>GNU libc (glibc) locale patch page</h1>
+
+ <p>This page contain information about the GNU libc locale
+ collection, including patches, suggested formates, list of known
+ problems and who to contact regarding the different locales. It
+ is a work in progress. The page maintainer, Petter
+ Reinholdtsen, is working with the GNU libc maintainers to get
+ all the fixes included in the official releases of the
+ source.</p>
+
+ <h2>References to documentation and standards</h2>
+
+ <p>It is currently an open question where the format og locales in
+ glibc is documented. This list of references is at least
+ pointing to related docuemnts documenting the format of locales,
+ even if the glibc maintainers might not accept them as
+ authoritative.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 (not freely available)</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/">ISO/IEC
+ 9945:2002</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html">The
+ Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003
+ Edition</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2638/">ISO/IEC
+ FCD 14652</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://yacob.org/ISO-14652.pdf">ISO/IEC FPDTR
+ 14652:1999(E)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf">ISO/IEC
+ TR 14652:2003</a></li>
+
+ </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>Locale related problem reports</h2>
+
+ <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.gnu.org/">GNU libc gnats database</a></h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>libc/2254: Insufficient info from the locale tool.
+ <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha, partly fixed in CVS 2003-05-21)
+
+ <li>libc/2931: Missing nb_NO locale
+ <br>(patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15)
+
+ <li>libc/2954: Should add postal telephone and vehicle codes to locales
+ <br>(HTML error in gnats?)
+
+ <li>libc/3606: Update documentation regarding LC_ALL and LANG
+
+ <li>libc/4197: Incorrect hr_HR - currency sumbol position
+ <br>(sent email to submitter [bad address] and author)
+
+ <li>libc/4348: Converting charset "eucjp->sjis->iso2022jp" and
+ "eucjp->iso2022jp" give different result.
+
+ <li>libc/4658: 'locale -a' do not list locales in archive
+
+ <li>libc/4938: Segfaults when using locale info before it is initialized
+
+ <li><strike>libc/5013: Incorrect fi_FI - gramatic</strike>
+ <br>(sent email to submitter and author, patch sent 2003-05-09,
+ patch commited 2003-06-16)
+
+ <li>libc/5018, libc/5019, libc/5028: Incorret uk_UA.
+ <br>(sent email to submitter and author)
+
+ <li>libc/5023: Missing locales li_NL, nds_NL and nds_DE
+ <br>(sent email to submitter)
+
+ <li>libc/5059: Wrong date format for locale sl_SI
+ <br>(sent email to submitter and locale author, approved by author,
+ patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-07-06)
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>From <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux BTS</a></h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/111268">#111268: Incorrect
+ sv_SE - 13:59 instead of 13.59 for clock time</a>
+ <br>(patch sent 2003-05-18)
+
+ <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/119528">#119528: Incorrect
+ ro_RO - rewritten locale</a>
+ <br>(sent email to submitter)
+
+ <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/178513">#178513:
+ Incorrect is_IS - Use lower case letters in month and week
+ day names</a></strike>
+ <br>(sent email to submitter and author, confirmed by Keld,
+ patch sent to libc-alpha 2003-06-15, patch commited
+ 2003-06-16)
+
+ <li><strike><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/194289">#194289: New
+ locale ag_ES for Aragonese</a></strike>
+ <br>(sent email to submitter, patch commited 2003-06-16 as
+ an_ES)
+
+ <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/193904">#193904:
+ locales.alias even lines are not considered (debian
+ only?)</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/206474">#206474: locales:
+ nb_NO should be a real locale, not an alias</a>
+ <br>Same as libc/2931
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>From <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RedHat Bugzilla</a></h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strike><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75139">#75139:
+ Incorrect week start day for sv_SE (should start on
+ monday)</a></strike>
+ <br>(Corrected in CVS 2003-01-14)
+
+ <li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83276">#83276:
+ Norwegian locale in distro</a>
+ <br>Same as libc/2931
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Patches submittet to the glibc maintainers</h2>
+
+ <h3>Pending/rejected</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-04/msg00173.html">2003-04-15
+ Add sorting test for no_NO</a>
+
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00151.html">2003-05-18
+ Correct sorting for nn_NO to match no_NO</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00154.html">2003-05-18
+ Norwegian week start on monday, fix no_NO and nn_NO</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00155.html">2003-05-18
+ Change sv_SE to use ':' in clock format (BTS #111268)</a>
+
+ <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00158.html">2003-05-18
+ Include examples in 'locale --help' (PR libc/2254,
+ rejected)</a></strike>
+
+ <li><strike><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00265.html">2003-05-29
+ Generate locales on 'make check' (rejected)</a></strike>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00267.html">2003-05-29
+ Indent the error output from sort-test.sh</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00133.html">2003-06-15
+ Add nb_NO locale (PR libc/2931)</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00257.html">2003-06-21
+ Add test for international currency formatting.</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/2003-09/msg00003.html">2003-09-01
+ Document why there are two locales for Hebrew</a>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Accepted/included</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00310.html">2003-05-31
+ Correct email of Denis V. Dmitrienko in uk_UA
+ (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00311.html">2003-05-31
+ Correct thousand separator for fi_FI (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00129.html">2003-06-15
+ Correct fi_FI date gramar (PR libc/5013) (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00141.html">2003-06-15
+ Clean up locale test code (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00155.html">2003-06-15
+ Use lower case letters in month and week day names in is_IS
+ (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00255.html">2003-06-21
+ Add missing ETH to LC_COLLATE in no_NO
+ (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-06/msg00317.html">2003-06-25
+ Correct an_ES charset and add an_ES.ISO-8859-15 to
+ SUPPORTED (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ <li><strong><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-07/msg00020.html">2003-07-13
+ Make sort-test handle more then 100 lines, and avoid
+ segfault (commited)</a></strong>
+
+ </ul>
+
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+ <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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