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Re: Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea in GNU libc.
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Yacob <yacob at geez dot org>
- Cc: pere at hungry dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:16:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: Updating/adding locale for Ethiopia and Eritrea in GNU libc.
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <E19Rgej-0000EU-00@geez.org>
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Daniel Yacob wrote:
> I take it that copying one locale into another has no unwanted side
> effect?
You inherit from another locale only the categories you explicitly copy.
> My only real concern here is that one locale then depends on
> another, that sounds a little scary.
For the collation information this dependency is wanted.
> I believe most of the Linux
> distributions that I've encountered provide only a subset of the locales
> available from glibc.
I doubt it. You might be talking about the binary form. The sources
are all available. And this is where the sharing happens. The binary
files are always a complete set for each local.
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