Previously, they were assumed to be in ISO-8859-1, and that the output
charset overlapped with ISO-8859-1 for the characters actually used.
However, this did not work as intended on many architectures even for
an ISO-8859-1 output encoding because of the char signedness bug in
lr_getc. Therefore, this commit switches to UTF-8 without making
provisions for backwards compatibility.
The following Elisp code can be used to convert locale definition files
to UTF-8:
(defun glibc/convert-localedef (from to)
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region from to)
(goto-char (point-min))
(save-match-data
(while (re-search-forward "<U\\([0-9a-fA-F]+\\)>" nil t)
(let* ((codepoint (string-to-number (match-string 1) 16))
(converted
(cond
((memq codepoint '(?/ ?\ ?< ?>))
(string ?/ codepoint))
((= codepoint ?\") "<U0022>")
(t (string codepoint)))))
(replace-match converted t)))))))
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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