Bug 47247
| Summary: | Xlib's locale.alias missing en_GB.ISO-8859-1 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | hobbit |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 22:31:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Owen Taylor
2001-07-04 03:36:10 UTC
The reason for dual entries in the file is backward compatibility, and the two halves must be kept in sync. What entries need to be added? en.ISO-8859-1: en.ISO8859-1 en_GB.ISO-8859-1 en_GB.ISO8859-1 I don't see any reason for adding the following, because there are no existing entries in that form: en_GB.ISO-8859.1 en_GB.ISO8859-1 Does that look right? I think adding missing entries that are common to other locales is ok, but I don't want to just add random permutations unless they are truely deemed necessary. IOW, what specific apps would break without foo.. The top two make perfect sense however. Comments? This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax gold-release. Owen, I've looked much deeper into this, and I disagree that they should be added. There are few existing locale aliases in this form, and adding more just promotes the usage of broken aliases. In XFree86, the standard form of locale is: xx_YY.ISO8859-n That is what applications should be using IMHO, and all locales should be unified to use that. Patching the locale.alias is a huge PITA all the time as it has to more or less be done one piece at a time and synced in 2 places in the file. I discourage the addition of new aliases unless they are widely used and missing for a given locale, or some other critical reason. I would prefer that the application gdm be patched to use what XFree86 and glibc use as the default: ISO8859-n format However, since I am open minded about this, I will leave the decision up to you. If you insist on the change I will make it with a few grumblings. <grin> I am going to hack X sometime to automatically canonicalize all stupid aliases into the expected format sometime as this really really really sucks and is incredibly tedious. If you agree with me, please close it WONTFIX, if you feel like dropping me into a pit of lava, then say "DOITNOWXBOY". ;o) Seriously though, I would really like to see the aliases minimalized and see apps start to head towards common standard set by X and/or glibc. ISO-8859-1 is the standard name for this charset in GNU libc, and on linux. What's in the Xlib locale.alias files is fairly irrelevant. The C library defines locale names, not the X library. While adding canonicalization code would be nice, we definitely NEED to fix this for 7.2. The 3 locales I mentioned in my mail are the only ones that are absolute requirements. *** Bug 51169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Ok, I have been convinced. ;o) I've added it to 4.1.0-0.9.13 for now. XFree86 CVS just recently got a new checkin to automate the syncing of the two halves of the locale.alias at build time, so in the future this might get easier to deal with. I'm still planning on canonicalization tho.. at somepoint. Thanks. |