Re: tlug: Locale mess

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Klaus Kudielka wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > POSIX locales have been unimplemented on most systems for most locales 
> > until very recently.  I think Linux only got a working Japanese locale 
> > within the last few months, and then only for glibc systems.
> 
> Do you mean ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection/locales/ja_JP ?
> I'm trying to compile it with glibc-2.0.17 localedef and get
> 
> [root@example.com locales]# localedef -i ja_JP -f JIS_X0201 ja_JP
> ja_JP:583: syntax error in definition of new character class
> ja_JP:592: syntax error in definition of LC_CTYPE category
> ja_JP:623: syntax error in definition of LC_CTYPE category
> ja_JP:628: syntax error in definition of LC_CTYPE category
> 
> [several hundreds of error messages deleted]
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> > I seem to recall that one version or another of XFree86 took the
> > unconditional-delegate-to-libc route.  So you might have got such a
> > library, in which case a program built to use Xsetlocale mightn't
> > work.  I'm not really sure why, though, I thought the whole point of
> > the trickery was to avoid this outcome.
> 
> AFAIK, recent XFree86 versions do compile Xsetlocale support only for
> libc5 systems. They assume that locale on glibc systems is working
> perfectly - which, ummm, is not the case, at least on my Red Hat
> 5.1 system (see above).

Yeah, when we made glibc for TLJ, we added some patches and fixes and
stuff to make the Japanese locales work right.  You should be able to use
the TLJ glibc RPMs in your RH 5.1 system, however.  It's based on the same
code, but ours just has the Japanese patches applied.

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