Re: the purpose of locale.alias

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Bruno Haible:

>> Without a locale archvie, this seems indeed a use
>> case for locale.alias.
>
> No, without a locale archive, this kind of aliases are automatic, due to
> the directory structure on disk and the search algorithm in
> glibc/intl/l10nflist.c. See this experiment:
>
>   # localedef --no-archive -i hy_AM -f UTF-8 hy_AM
>   # LC_ALL=hy_AM locale
>   (OK)
>   # LC_ALL=hy_AM.UTF-8 locale
>   (OK)
>   # LC_ALL=hy_AM.ISO-8859-1 locale
>   locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
>   locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
>   locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>   ...
>
> This shows that an alias
>   hy_AM.UTF-8 hy_AM
> in locale.alias is not needed.

I think the alias is still missing from “locale -a”.  I'm not sure if
there's a better way of fixing that except for augmenting locale.alias.
Suggestions welcome, it's one of our permanently open downstream bugs. 8-/

Thanks,
Florian