Bug #1962, localedef unable to handle unknown language codes

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> Should the locales have three letter names?

If there is no two letter language abbreviation, yes.


> Is it ok
> to skip 'lang_ab' when the language is missing a two letter language
> code?

We don't invent anything so yes, this should be fine.


> (I guess the question I should be asking is "where is a good
> documentation on the format of locale files?".  Anyone know?)

POSIX standard.

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