[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["myllynen at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #23 from Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com> ---
> So all anyone need do to create a custom locale file is to:
> 
> What could be simpler?  After all, it did not take me much more than four or
> five days to figure this all out on my own. I have probably forgotten a
> number of other steps that were also necessary and so are not listed here.

I would imagine anyone interested in this area will either do a web search for
something "glibc locale" or just type "man locale." Both of these methods today
lead to the following interlinked documents which should provide all the
information needed so while there's still lots of manual work to do, at least
it should be easier to see what needs to be done.

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/locale.1.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.5.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/locale.7.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/localedef.1.html

The missing reference to strftime(3) was a fair point and it has now been fixed
in upstream:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=ea7208a6aae62dbe7af43a21654d2d269ca41957

> At the very least we need:
> 
> * localedef documentation.
> * examples using localedef to install a locale to the locale archive.

These should already be covered by localedef(1) and other pages, if you think
something is missing perhaps you could describe the issue in detail or even
provide a patch / adjust the wiki page?

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