Re: [patches] Does eglibc accept new locales?

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Erdal Ronahi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> does eglibc include new locales not yet included into glibc?

The packaging of locales (and timezone information, similarly) with the C 
library, beyond those needed for testing purposes, is largely for 
historical reasons; the library provides the localedef utility needed to 
translate them into the binary formats used at runtime, and EGLIBC also 
provides cross-localedef, but there's no logical reason why the C library 
should need to be the software that installs locales when anyone can build 
their own with localedef.  The skills needed to review locales are quite 
different from those for reviewing C library code.  As such, I think a 
separate community collecting locales is a better approach, and at least 
once such project ("belocs") exists.

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Joseph S. Myers
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