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Re: Ukrainian locale
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- To: "Volodymyr M. Lisivka" <lvm at mystery dot lviv dot net>
- Cc: Valentyn Solomko <vesna at sammit dot kiev dot ua>,"Denis V. Dmitrienko" <denis at denix dot org>,Leon Kanter <leon at blackcatlinux dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:17:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: Ukrainian locale
- Bcc: Petter Reinholdtsen <petter dot reinholdtsen at usit dot uio dot no>
- References: <E19RVjZ-0003VF-00@saruman.uio.no> <20030617140530.GC1205@lisa.mystery.lviv.net>
[Volodymyr M. Lisivka]
> Ok, but current locale has bugs in collation order for Ukrainian
> letters. Can You update at least LC_COLLATION section to fix bugs?
I do not have write access to the glibc CVS, so I can only assist you
in submitting the changes to the glibc maintainers.
>> - I've been told by the glibc maintainers that the <U#> notation
>> should be used for ASCII values as well as non-ASCII values. The
>> locale uses ASCII texts several places. This should probably be
>> changed.
>
> Is there any tool to do that?
Not that I'm aware of. I would like such tool myself. :)
>> - The glibc locales seem to contain some information in comments at
>> the top of the file. Your file is missing these. The included
>> patch adds these headers.
>
> Where I can find documentation about format and purpose of this comment?
I do not know. I've just been looking at the other locales.
>> +% Charset: KOI8-U
> What this string mean? (Default encoding for locale?)
This is the default or suggested charset for the locale, yes.
>> - Why do you use posix:1993 for LC_NUMERIC?
> Please read ISO TR14652 about LC_IDENTIFICATION section.
I've since learned what should be in this field, and realise I was
wrong in my initial suggestion. But your locale have a typo in this
field. It reads 'il18n' while it should read 'i18n'.