Fwd: Bug#41144: incomplete or broken locale defns cause generalchaos

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

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Is this a bug? Is it feasible to fix?

The data files are created using the install-locales makefile target.

>Subject: Bug#41144: incomplete or broken locale defns cause general chaos
>Reply-To: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>, 41144@bugs.debian.org
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>From: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>
>Date: 12 Jul 1999 04:15:38 -0700
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>Package: locales
>Version: 2.1.1-13
>Severity: critical
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>Many of the locale definitions seem to have missing, undefined
>fields.  This wreaks havoc on a number of programs, causing them to
>hang or crash or otherwise fail.  A simple example:
>
>LANG=it_IT date +%p
>
>This will hang with most of the provided locales, not just it_IT.
>Only the japanese, turkish, chinese, icelandic and most of the english
>and spanish locales pass this simple test.  Any which fail this test
>can also cause emacs (as a random example) to hang.
>
>I've checked with a few other people, and this seems to be pretty
>consistent.  I think we need to have *some* value defined for
>everything that's supposed to be in a locale for all locales.  Better
>to have incorrect data (e.g. from C or POSIX locales) than no data,
>IMO, since incorrect data won't cause things to hang....
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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