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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
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Subject: Re: the purpose of locale.alias
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* 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 chang=
es
>   (like in the past with Yugoslavia or Soviet Union). Such changes can ha=
ppen
>   in the future, and for people who use a rolling-release distribution an=
d
>   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 =E2=80=9Clocale -a=E2=80=9D output=
, and some
people have noticed.  Without a locale archvie, this seems indeed a use
case for locale.alias.

Thanks,
Florian