From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: duplication in locale output ja_JP
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170621075335.GB6658@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b491aaa5-1861-fd84-6810-22905d7cd2bc@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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On Jun 20 16:16, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-06-20 14:50, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > I don't know if it is a bug or just a curiosity.
> > $ uname -svr
> > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.1(0.310/5/3)
> > it seems there are two equal entry for ja_JP
> > and it is the only one with repetition
> > $ locale -a |grep -i "ja"
> > ja_JP
> > ja_JP
> > ja_JP.utf8
> > ja_JP.ujis
> > ja_JP@cjknarrow
> > ja_JP.utf8@cjknarrow
> > japanese
> > japanese.euc
> > japanese.sjis
> > $ locale -a | uniq -d
> > ja_JP
>
> Looks like the ja_JP locale.alias entry is redundant when a Windows
> entry also exists:
>
> $ cmd /c ver
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
> $ uname -svrmo
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin
> $ locale --version
> locale (cygwin) 2.8.0
> $ locale -av | fgrep ja_JP
> locale: ja_JP archive: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
> locale: ja_JP archive: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
> locale: ja_JP.utf8 archive: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
> locale: ja_JP.ujis archive: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
> locale: ja_JP@cjknarrow archive: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
> locale: ja_JP.utf8@cjknarrow archive:
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
> $ fgrep ja_JP /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
> japanese ja_JP.eucJP
> japanese.euc ja_JP.eucJP
> ja_JP ja_JP.eucJP
> ja_JP.ujis ja_JP.eucJP
> japanese.sjis ja_JP.SJIS
>
> Same results on Cygwin32.
The duplication is a minor tradeoff in the way the locale.alias file and
the builtin locales are evaluated. Actually, this may occur on Linux,
too, at least I could reproduce it a couple of years ago, so I'm not too
worried about it.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-21 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-20 20:51 duplication in locale output Marco Atzeri
2017-06-20 22:16 ` duplication in locale output ja_JP Brian Inglis
2017-06-21 7:53 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-06-20 22:16 ` Brian Inglis
2017-06-21 5:09 ` Marco Atzeri
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