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patch: Document why there are two locales for Hebrew
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:55:35 +0200
- Subject: 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"