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Re: bad side-effects of new locale design

To: Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin dot cz>
Subject: Re: bad side-effects of new locale design
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 06 Sep 2000 11:56:27 -0700
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000904114020.A13367@utx.cz><m3aedm3ijb.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> <20000906203431.A2438@utx.cz>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz> writes:

> Message catalogs are found for all possible ways to specify LANG
> (czech, cs, cs_CZ, cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2), but locales only for
> variants czech, cs_CZ, cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2, but not for cs.

Of course.  A locale contains not only language information.  There
could be czech speaking people leaving somewhere else.  This is
exactly the expected behavior.

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- Re: bad side-effects of new locale design
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