[Bug libc/18412] 'locale -a' outputs encoding errors

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18412

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Paul Eggert from comment #3)
> Thanks for reminding me about the old discussion; I'd forgotten it, and
> filed this bug report only because I personally ran into the bug again. 
> Let's bite the bullet and fix it; I created a proposed patch.  We should
> stamp out those poorly-encoded locale aliases anyway.

I wanted to have some kind of compatibility for the removed entries, but the
more I think about it the more work it will be. We'll need another
configuration file to handle the compat entries, and to allow users to remove
them, and that's a terrible solution.

Could we skip printing non-ASCII aliases? Document that as the expected
behaviour? Then add comments in locale.alias saying these two aliases are not
printed, but can be used for old program comaptibility?

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