I try to use the latest just to give it a spin, and I have noticed that
locales don't quite work with 'glibc-2.95.2-3mdk', e.g. this 'strace'
output extract from running 'date':
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open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_GB/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/share/i18n/en_GB/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/share/i18n/en/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
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There are three problems:
* The locales in the 'locale*-2.3-1mdk' RPMs are installed in the wrong
directory ("/usr/share/locale"), or else 'glibc-2.95.2-3mdk' has been
compiled with a different default locale directory path
("/usr/lib/locale:/usr/share/i18n").
* There are locale definition files with 'glibc-2.95.2-3mdk", but they
are not compiled, in "/usr/share/i18n".
* Even if the locales are looked up in the new path
"/usr/lib/locale:/usr/share/i18n", the locale alias file is expected
to be in "/usr/share/locale".
For now this can be fixed by compiling with 'localedef' the locale and
character map definition under "/usr/share/i18n/locales/", which will
end up in "/usr/lib/locale", writing a suitable
"/usr/lib/locale/locale.alias" file and linking it as
"/usr/share/locale/locale.alias".
I have done so for the few locales I might end up actually using (with
the 'ISO-8859-1' character map, which results in a locale suffix of
'iso88591'), and this is the 'locale.alias' file that defines aliases
with the most common variants:
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latin1 POSIX
ISO8859_1 POSIX
ISO-8859-1 POSIX
C POSIX
C_C.C POSIX
C.ISO8859_1 POSIX
C.ISO-8859-1 POSIX
Cextend en_US.iso88591
English_United-States.437 en_US.iso88591
cymraeg cy_GB.iso88591
welsh cy_GB.iso88591
cy cy_GB.iso88591
cy_GB cy_GB.iso88591
cy_GB.ISO8859_1 cy_GB.iso88591
cy_GB.ISO-8859-1 cy_GB.iso88591
english en_GB.iso88591
en en_GB.iso88591
en_GB en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.ISO8859_1 en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.ISO-8859-1 en_GB.iso88591
english_us en_US.iso88591
en en_US.iso88591
en_US en_US.iso88591
en_US.ISO8859_1 en_US.iso88591
en_US.ISO-8859-1 en_US.iso88591
french fr_FR.iso88591
français fr_FR.iso88591
fr fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.ISO8859_1 fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 fr_FR.iso88591
fr_CA fr_CA.iso88591
fr_CA.ISO8859_1 fr_CA.iso88591
fr_CA.ISO-8859-1 fr_CA.iso88591
italian it_IT.iso88591
italiano it_IT.iso88591
it it_IT.iso88591
it_IT it_IT.iso88591
it_IT.ISO8859_1 it_IT.iso88591
it_IT.ISO-8859-1 it_IT.iso88591
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As a general note, the locale situation is a bit of a mess, because it's
not clear which/where the stuff should default to.
