There's no support for the UTF-8 variant of the nl_NL locale, although it would be very logical to have it (UTF-8 is an agreed upon standard, it's the future; and most translations in this locale are provided in UTF-8 encoding). I would also suggest to make the UTF-8 variant the default (and the same for all other locales, when that makes sense). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This to me sounds like something that needs to be taken up with the glibc people, unless you have a patch or something that can implement this. Otherwise, it more or less falls outside the realm of Gentoo, as it's not a bug within Gentoo itself, but more a feature request for a component used by multiple Linux distributions. Unless you have any other information (i.e., Patch) or additional information that can implement this, I will resolve this bug as INVALID in a day or so.
The reason I reported it like this, is that a support request for the en_US.UTF-8 locale (bug number 18744) was done the same way. What I currently do to manually add the support is: # localedef -i nl_NL -c -f UTF-8 nl_NL (Sorry for not giving this additional info directly.)
Ahh, so it isn't a patch to glibc then, just a command that needs to be run in say, the ebuild?
That would work, yes. I've taken a further look at the glibc source package, and it turns out there's a localedata/SUPPORTED file, from which those locales seem to be generated. I think the best way would be to add this locale to that file (upstream), but I'm still in the dark about how the other bug I mentioned is solved (there's no support for en_US.UTF-8 in the SUPPORTED file). I'll contact the glibc developers, and report here what's the result (I think that's easiest).
FYI: this should be fixed in the next version of glibc (upstream)
