Bug 173286 – /etc/locale.gen comments are wrong on file format

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erik Hovland 2007-04-03 21:06:00 UTC]

According to the comments in /etc/locale.gen the format for the file is (and I quote):
"The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the files in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. Here is an example:
en_US/ISO-8859-1"

When, according to the document:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml

The correct format is (for example):
en_US ISO-8859-1

Note the space instead of the '/'. Someone should change the comments or just point to the localization document.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Erik Hovland 2007-04-03 21:10:21 UTC]

Created attachment 115391 [details, diff]
corrects problem with comments

The comments in the file are wrong. This patch fixes that.

[Comment 2 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2007-04-03 23:20:47 UTC]

Documentation is correct, file comments are wrong (tried slash, didn't work).

[Comment 3 Dan 2007-04-04 00:01:31 UTC]

# The format of each line:
# <locale> <charmap>

here... glibc-2.5-r0

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-04-04 02:45:55 UTC]

/etc/locale.gen has never read that way ... my guess is you copied the old locales.build file over top of locale.gen