[PATCH] manual: Update LOCPATH documentation

Marko Myllynen myllynen@redhat.com
Fri May 30 08:36:00 GMT 2014


Hi,

On 2014-05-28 15:25, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I noticed that the LOCPATH documentation had bitrotted and did not match
> the current defaults anymore.

FWIW, LOCPATH is now documented also in the latest man pages, how
searching is done and also a compact example how to use a custom locale
from LOCPATH generated with localedef is provided:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/locale.7.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/locale.1.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/localedef.1.html

> It's also a bit odd that we go to great lengths *not* documenting the
> actual format of locale specifiers (mostly the
> language_TERRITORY.codeset@modifier structure), while this format is
> very much part of our public interface and described in the setlocale(3)
> manual page.  What's the current thinking on that?  Should we add this
> to the manual as well?

Sounds like a good idea.

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen



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