At Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:25:49 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 08:45:21PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:14:01 -0300, > > Marco T?lio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > > > We have no plan to support such modification, use standard pt_BR. > > > > > > Sorry, but the woody's GDM will only work good if it has this alias. I > > > don't know if you should do or not this, but I think that it will help > > > all the brazilian woody users. > > > > This gdm issue was discussed. It's gdm problem, not libc issue. > > Using libc locale.alias is not recommended. > > One can begin with: > > for f in `locale -a` > do > echo -n `LANG=$f locale language` > echo " $f" > done > > After some more processing (removing duplicates, aliases -- ie. when $f is > different from C, POSIX, ?? and ??_??.* -- and putting all locales for a > given language on a single line), it should become suitable for GDM.
Yup, using locale files in localedata/locales/*, we can make translation between standard locale name and English readable name. It's valuable not only for gdm but also locales debconf templates. I put this to debian/TODO. Regards, -- gotom