Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea in GNU libc.

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Daniel Yacob wrote:

> I take it that copying one locale into another has no unwanted side
> effect?

You inherit from another locale only the categories you explicitly copy.


> My only real concern here is that one locale then depends on
> another, that sounds a little scary.

For the collation information this dependency is wanted.


> I believe most of the Linux 
> distributions that I've encountered provide only a subset of the locales
> available from glibc.

I doubt it.  You might be talking about the binary form.  The sources
are all available.  And this is where the sharing happens.  The binary
files are always a complete set for each local.


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