[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Fri May 15 17:40:00 GMT 2015


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #10 from James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #8)

> 
> User locales can be installed into two locations. Directly as files, where
> they can be parsed, or installed into the locale archive to loaded directly
> into every application for faster usage.
> 
> The general problem is that distributions, at least in Fedora and RHEL,
> overwrite the locale archive when glibc is upgraded.
> 
> Either way, this is a Fedora or RHEL issue and not a generic upstream issue.
> 
> At the very least we need:
> 
> * localedef documentation.
> * examples using localedef to install a locale to the locale archive.

It there any technical reason why a local custom locale archives location could
not be provided?

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