normalize_codeset

[Ulrich Drepper]

Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> What's the purpose of the normalize_codeset done by localedef?
> Is it to permit that users enter the locale in lowercase and possibly
> without dashes?

Yes.  People use

	ja_JP.eucJP
	ja_JP.EUC-JP
	ja_JP.EUCJP

etc.

> Then why is it *not* done if a full pathname for the locale is given?

Because the user asked for it.

> This has the consequence that the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale (installed by
> "make localedata/install-locales") is really called ru_RU.KOI8-R.

It should not be.  localedef should never be used with a complete
output path except for testing and by the user to create private
locales.

> XFree86 doesn't look at these files. It looks at the return value of
> setlocale(LC_CTYPE,NULL) and uses the resulting string
> 1) as an index in its own database of XLC_LOCALE files,
> 2) to determine whether it's an UTF-8 locale.

Then they have to add more aliases or do a similar normalization.

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