Bug 32115 – sys-libs/glibc: nl_NL.UTF-8 locale

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Aurelus 2003-10-27 11:53:21 UTC]

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
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[Comment 1 Joshua Kinard 2003-10-30 13:56:09 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 Aurelus 2003-10-30 14:32:55 UTC]

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.)

[Comment 3 Joshua Kinard 2003-10-30 18:12:57 UTC]

Ahh, so it isn't a patch to glibc then, just a command that needs to be run
in say, the ebuild?

[Comment 4 Aurelus 2003-10-31 02:35:38 UTC]

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).

[Comment 5 Aurelus 2004-02-02 09:42:13 UTC]

FYI: this should be fixed in the next version of glibc (upstream)