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1997-02-15 14:32 15:10 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.pfalz.de> * collate-test.c (main): change prototype definition to prevent warning. 1997-02-15 17:46 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * locales/de_DE: Include real collation data. It's similar to the en_DK information but the order of small and capital characters is exchanged. * collate-test.c: New file. Test suite for strcoll function. * de_DE.in: Input file for collation test. * da_DK.in: Likewise. * xfrm-test.c: New file. Test suite for strxfrm function. 1996-12-10 02:47 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * All charmaps: Fix entries for <quotation-mark>. 1996-10-17 18:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * Makefile (charmaps): Don't try to install CVS or RCS directory. (locales): Likewise. Reported by Matthias Urlichs.
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POSIX locale descriptions
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and
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POSIX character set descriptions
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Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <1997/02/12 22:13:01 drepper>
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drepper@cygnus.com
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This add-on package contains the data needed to build the locale data
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files to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc.
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POSIX.2 describes the `localedef' utility which is part of the GNU libc.
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You need this program to "compile" the locale description in a form
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suitable for fast access by the GNU libc functions. Any compilation is
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based on a given character set.
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To use these data files you should add the name of this add-on
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(localedata) to the list of add-on you specify while compiling the GNU
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libc:
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configure --enable-add-ons=...,localedata ...
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where ... are the options you normally choose. Once you run `make
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install' for the GNU libc the data files are automatically installed in
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the right place, ready for use by the `localedef' program.
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To compile the locale data files you simply have to decide which locale
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(based on the location and the language) and which character set you
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use. E.g., French speaking Canadians would use the locale `fr_CA' and
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the character set `ISO_8859-1,1987'. Calling `localedef' to get the
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desired data should happen like this:
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localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 fr_CA
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This will place the 6 output files in the appropriate directory where
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the GNU libc functions can find them. Please note that you need the
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rights to write to this directory ($(prefix)/share/locale, where
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$(prefix) is the value you specified while configuring GNU libc). If
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you do not have the necessary rights, you can write the files into an
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arbitrary directory by giving a path including a '/' character instead
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of `fr_CA'. E.g., to put the new files in a subdirectory of the
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current directory simply use
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localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 ./fr_CA
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How to use these data files is described in the GNU libc manual,
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especially in the section describing the `setlocale' function.
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The here contained files can originally be found at
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ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection
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Keld J<>rn Simonsen from the Danish Unix User Group maintains this
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archive on behalf of the POSIX working groups. When you find some wrong
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data or want to add something please contact
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Keld J<>rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
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and
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
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Please make sure your corrections are relativ to the originally
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distributed files. Consult the CHECKSUMS file which contains the MD5
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sums for all data files.
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One more note: the `POSIX' locale definition is not meant to be used
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as an input file for `localedef'. It is rather there to show the
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values with are built in the libc binaries as default values when no
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legal locale is found or the "C" or "POSIX" locale is selected.
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The collation test suite
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########################
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This package also contains a (beginning of a) test suite for the
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collation functions in the GNU libc. The files are provided sorted.
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The test program shuffles the lines and sort them afterwards.
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Some of the files are provided in 8bit form, i.e., not only ASCII
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characters. So the tools you use to process the files should be 8bit
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clean.
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To run the test program the appropriate locale information must be
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installed. Therefore the localedef program is used to generate this
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data used the locale and charmap description files contained here.
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Since we cannot run the localedef program in case of cross-compilation
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no tests at all are performed.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Local Variables:
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mode:text
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eval:(load-library "time-stamp")
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eval:(make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)
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eval:(add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
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eval:(setq time-stamp-format '(time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd time-stamp-hh:mm:ss user-login-name))
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End:
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