From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91267 invoked by alias); 13 May 2015 15:02:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 91115 invoked by uid 48); 13 May 2015 15:02:37 -0000 From: "byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:02:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408 --- Comment #3 from James B. Byrne --- (In reply to Marko Myllynen from comment #1) > (In reply to James B. Byrne from comment #0) > > The existing localedef utility is undocumented > > It's documented in the Linux man-pages project: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/localedef.1.html > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/locale.1.html But not on RHEL6 which is what an end user, who only wants to change the date and time format, is likely to know of or to check. Run on a CentOS-6.6 system with all updates applied: localedef --help Usage: localedef [OPTION...] NAME or: localedef [OPTION...] [--add-to-archive|--delete-from-archive] FILE... or: localedef [OPTION...] --list-archive [FILE] Compile locale specification Input Files: -f, --charmap=FILE Symbolic character names defined in FILE -i, --inputfile=FILE Source definitions are found in FILE -u, --repertoire-map=FILE FILE contains mapping from symbolic names to UCS4 values . . . man localedef No manual entry for localedef What is it about this matter that prompts such utterly pointless responses? The issue is that date and time formats are idiosyncratic and should properly be in the hands of end users to determine for themselves. It is the user's computer system and the host OS should be, as a matter of principal, as malleable to their needs as can be made. Yet the Glibc community seems instead totally devoted to making changing those elements as difficult as humanly possible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.