Peter Novodvorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ++ 13/12/00 11:55 -0500 - Ben Collins: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:49:09PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > locale-gen generates incorrect locale-files. For example if I insert > > > this line: > > > ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R > > > in /etc/locale.gen, it generates locale in /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r > > > directory. Its not a bug of locale-gen, its a feature of > > > localedef, that "normalizes" locale names. This feature make life > > > hard from people with .charset locales (japanese .eucJP for eg.),=20 > > > because programs check directories with charset name in upper=20 > > > characters (for example qt, gtk and XFree86). Me and Alexander=20 > > > Kotelnikov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), patched the locale-gen, so it works=20 > > > with such locales. Here it is: > > > > > > <skip> > > > > I cannot implement this. Upstream claims that normalizing is part of the > > spec, and is the Right Thing, so I will not go against the grain here. > > Programs that try to read these files directly will need to take this into > > account and do the Right Thing themselves. > > It seems that this is trouble not only for us russians, but for > japanese people. I'm Ccing this mail to debian-i18n and > debian-russian, if you don't know how many users have trouble with this > silly Drepper's ``Right Thing''. (BTW, in previous version of libc, > there was exception for ru_RU.KOI8-R and Makefiles generated KOI8-R, > not koi8r locale)
Though I also had some trouble with this, I agree that it's right thing. At least it's never right for those programs to depend directly on the locale names -- there are no standard locale names. And fixing those programs are trivial. -- Changwoo Ryu
