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[Bug localedata/16095] New: glibc should build an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale, not only the Latin1 locales uz_UZ uz_UZ.iso88591
- From: "maiku.fabian at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:11:03 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/16095] New: glibc should build an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale, not only the Latin1 locales uz_UZ uz_UZ.iso88591
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16095
Bug ID: 16095
Summary: glibc should build an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale, not only the
Latin1 locales uz_UZ uz_UZ.iso88591
Product: glibc
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: maiku.fabian at gmail dot com
CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
Created attachment 7259
--> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7259&action=edit
0001-Support-UTF-8-locale-for-Uzbek-in-Latin-script.patch
Version: current master
There is no UTF-8 locale for Uzbek written in Latin script:
mfabian@ari:~
$ locale -a | grep ^uz
uz_UZ
uz_UZ.iso88591
uz_UZ.utf8@cyrillic
uz_UZ@cyrillic
mfabian@ari:~
$ LC_ALL=uz_UZ locale charmap
ISO-8859-1
mfabian@ari:~
$
I.e., although there is an UTF-8 locale for Uzbek written in Cyrillic
script, the Uzbek locales for Latin script are available only in
ISO-8859-1 encoding.
But Latin script is more common nowadays for Uzbek, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_language#Writing_systems
CLDR also made Latin script the default for Uzbek recently, see
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/6548 (Update country/language/pop for
Uzbek)
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/changeset/9155 (cldrbug 6548: Updated
Uzbekistan Latin/Cyrillic? usage to better reflect modern education / usage.)
Therefore, it is not nice to use a if only a non-UTF-8 locale
can be used for Uzbek in Latin script, it is not nice to use
non-UTF-8 locales nowadays if one can avoid it.
Therefore, an uz_UZ.UTF-8 locale should be built as well.
Patch against current master attached.
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