Bug 1398765

Summary:	New German locales: “locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C”
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mdw>
Component:	libX11	Assignee:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	ajax, sandmann
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Description Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer 2016-11-25 20:47:28 UTC

Only recently Fedora with glibc 2.24 got support for two new German locales: de_LI and de_IT. The problem is that they are not correctly supported by libX11 yet.

For instance a system with a de_IT yields:

$ locale -a | grep de_IT
de_IT
de_IT.iso88591
de_IT.utf8

$ LANG=de_IT.utf8 xterm
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

Only after patching compose.dir, locale.dir and locale.alias (patches in upstream bug report) the warning disappears and the software works. I did also some change to the parts concerning de_LI which seemed incorrect to me.

The underlying issue is the same as stated in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066910

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Comment 2 Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer 2017-12-01 20:21:04 UTC

Any news here?

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