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[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales
- From: "byrnejb at harte-lyne dot ca" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:48:11 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales
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- References: <bug-18408-716 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408
--- Comment #10 from James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #8)
>
> User locales can be installed into two locations. Directly as files, where
> they can be parsed, or installed into the locale archive to loaded directly
> into every application for faster usage.
>
> The general problem is that distributions, at least in Fedora and RHEL,
> overwrite the locale archive when glibc is upgraded.
>
> Either way, this is a Fedora or RHEL issue and not a generic upstream issue.
>
> At the very least we need:
>
> * localedef documentation.
> * examples using localedef to install a locale to the locale archive.
It there any technical reason why a local custom locale archives location could
not be provided?
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