[Bug localedata/18399] New: Review / update charmap data

["myllynen at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18399

            Bug ID: 18399
           Summary: Review / update charmap data
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.21
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: myllynen at redhat dot com
                CC: joseph at codesourcery dot com, libc-locales at sourceware dot org,
                    maiku.fabian at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

The localedata/charmaps/* files are probably, judging by comments in them,
based on the corresponding standards and are thus fine as-is. However, there
are at least few charmaps which should be reviewed and updated or even
added/removed if deemed appropriate.

- ISO_10646 was not updated as part of bug 14094 work and thus looks outdated.
Its use of mnemonics could also be reconsidered.

- POSIX Portable Character Set charmap is not available, should it?

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_02

- ISO_8859-1,GL looks like ISO-8859-1 written in mnemonics but the name is
derived from its author and thus it doesn't look like a general purpose
character map that should be part of glibc so perhaps it could be removed?

Thanks.

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