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Re: [astavitsky@yahoo.com: Bug#96928: locale -a reports incorrect locale name ru_RU.koi8r]


On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:09:35AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 21 May 2001 09:20:59 -0400,
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > I got the following Debian bug report. I'm not sure of the behavior
> > thought. Take for example:
> > 
> > blimpo:~# localedef -i ru_RU -c -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
> > blimpo:~# locale -a | grep ru_RU
> > ru_RU.koi8r
> > blimpo:~# ls -ld /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r
> > drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 May  9 21:16 /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r
> > blimpo:~# LANG=ru_RU.koi8r perl -e 'print "Hello\n";'
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >         LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >         LC_ALL = (unset),
> >         LANG = "ru_RU.koi8r"
> >     are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > Hello
> > blimpo:~# LANG=ru_RU.koi8-r perl -e 'print "Hello\n";'
> > Hello
> > blimpo:~#
> 
> This is only gconv module name alias issue.
> If `KOI8R' is widely used, this patch should be applied.

Well, I (and I presume the user who filed the bug report) assume that
any output from "locale -a" should be a valid value for any of the
locale env vars (such as LANG and LC_*). If this isn't a safe
assumption, then perhaps something needs to be clarified with this
output.

Ben

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