[Bug localedata/16095] New: glibc should build an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale, not only the Latin1 locales uz_UZ uz_UZ.iso88591

["maiku.fabian at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16095

            Bug ID: 16095
           Summary: glibc should build an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale, not only the
                    Latin1 locales uz_UZ uz_UZ.iso88591
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: maiku.fabian at gmail dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org

Created attachment 7259
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7259&action=edit
0001-Support-UTF-8-locale-for-Uzbek-in-Latin-script.patch

Version: current master

There is no UTF-8 locale for Uzbek written in Latin script:

    mfabian@ari:~
    $ locale -a | grep ^uz
    uz_UZ
    uz_UZ.iso88591
    uz_UZ.utf8@cyrillic
    uz_UZ@cyrillic
    mfabian@ari:~
    $ LC_ALL=uz_UZ locale charmap
    ISO-8859-1
    mfabian@ari:~
    $

I.e., although there is an UTF-8 locale for Uzbek written in Cyrillic
script, the Uzbek locales for Latin script are available only in
ISO-8859-1 encoding.

But Latin script is more common nowadays for Uzbek, see:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_language#Writing_systems

CLDR also made Latin script the default for Uzbek recently, see

    http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/6548 (Update country/language/pop for
Uzbek)

    http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/changeset/9155 (cldrbug 6548: Updated
Uzbekistan Latin/Cyrillic? usage to better reflect modern education / usage.)

Therefore, it is not nice to use a if only a non-UTF-8 locale
can be used for Uzbek in Latin script, it is not nice to use
non-UTF-8 locales nowadays if one can avoid it.

Therefore, an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale should be  built as well.

Patch against current master attached.

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