Bug 58070 - No en_US locale with iso-8859-15 charset
Summary: No en_US locale with iso-8859-15 charset
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-01-07 20:01 UTC by diego.santacruz
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-01-07 20:01:47 UTC
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Description diego.santacruz 2002-01-07 20:01:42 UTC
Description of Problem:

There is no (as of glibc-2.2.4-19.3) en_US locale that uses the iso-8859-15
charset. This is necessary for Euro support. There are such locales for some EU
countries, but I guess that people in the US might also want to use the Euro
symbol ;-)

It would be necessary to create more @euro locales, such as en_US@euro and
en_GB@euro, or to make the western locales use the iso-8859-15 charset instead
of the iso-8859-1 charset. Or maybe create en_US.iso-8859-15 and similar
locales? Don't know what is the best fix, but it is currently cumbersome to try
to use Euro font support. Any solution would also require updating
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.{alias,dir} accordingly.

For the time being I'm using the en_IE@euro locale, but it's far from being the
best solution.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.2.4-19.3

Actual Results:

Cannot use Euro symbol with a en_US locale.

Expected Results:
Be able to use the Euro symbol in a en_US locale

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2002-01-09 10:58:08 UTC
en_US@euro, en_GB@euro etc. don't make sense, those are locales where
LC_MONETARY currency is EUR, which is not true for US or GB.
As for en_US.ISO-8859-15 etc. locales:
a) you can create them yourself, just run localedef(1) to create them
b) there is en_US.UTF-8 locale which is the way to go (but admitedly not
   all apps are UTF-8 ready yet)


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