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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: the purpose of locale.alias
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:57:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyyp2lcm.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77018150.VQpxGFKSoK@nimes> (Bruno Haible's message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:55:44 +0200")

* Bruno Haible:

> * But a valid future use of locale.alias is when a language code changes
>   (like in the past: no -> nb, or iw -> he), or when a country code changes
>   (like in the past with Yugoslavia or Soviet Union). Such changes can happen
>   in the future, and for people who use a rolling-release distribution and
>   use locale names in their .profile script, it is useful to be able to
>   add a line
>      ll_oldCC.UTF-8    ll_newCC.UTF-8
>   to the locale.alias file.

In addition to what is currently in intl/locale.alias, localedef creates
additional aliases when populating the archive, along those lines.
These aliases are currently missing from “locale -a” output, and some
people have noticed.  Without a locale archvie, this seems indeed a use
case for locale.alias.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-11  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-10  8:55 Bruno Haible
2023-09-11  7:57 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2023-09-12 18:55   ` Bruno Haible
2023-09-12 19:28     ` Florian Weimer

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