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patch: Document why there are two locales for Hebrew


Here is a patch to document why there are two Hebrew locales.  Please
include it in the next release of glibc.


2003-09-01  Petter Reinholdtsen  <pere@hungry.com>

	* locales/iw_IL locales/he_IL: Add comment stating why there are
	two locales for Hebrew in Israel, and that he_IL replaces iw_IL.

Index: locales/iw_IL
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/localedata/locales/iw_IL,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.7 iw_IL
--- localedata/locales/iw_IL       26 Oct 2000 23:22:56 -0000      1.7
+++ localedata/locales/iw_IL       1 Sep 2003 21:52:00 -0000
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ escape_char  /
 % Charset: ISO-8859-8
 % Distribution and use is free, also
 % for commercial purposes.
+%
+% Obsolete locale.  The ISO-639 code for Hebrew was changed from 'iw'
+% to 'he' in 1989, according to Bruno Haible on libc-alpha 2003-09-01.

 LC_IDENTIFICATION
 title      "Hebrew locale for Israel"
Index: locales/he_IL
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/localedata/locales/he_IL,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.6 he_IL
--- localedata/locales/he_IL       26 Oct 2000 23:22:56 -0000      1.6
+++ localedata/locales/he_IL       1 Sep 2003 21:52:00 -0000
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ escape_char  /
 % Charset: ISO-8859-8
 % Distribution and use is free, also
 % for commercial purposes.
+%
+% This locale replaces iw_IL, as the ISO-639 code for Hebrew was changed
+% from 'iw' to 'he' in 1989, according to Bruno Haible on libc-alpha
+% 2003-09-01.

 LC_IDENTIFICATION
 title      "Hebrew locale for Israel"


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