and
POSIX character set descriptions
-Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <1997/06/04 01:36:26 drepper>
-drepper@cygnus.com
+Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <2004/11/27 13:06:54 drepper>
+drepper@redhat.com
-This add-on package contains the data needed to build the locale data
-files to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc.
+This directory contains the data needed to build the locale data files
+to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc.
POSIX.2 describes the `localedef' utility which is part of the GNU libc.
You need this program to "compile" the locale description in a form
suitable for fast access by the GNU libc functions. Any compilation is
based on a given character set.
-To use these data files you should add the name of this add-on
-(localedata) to the list of add-on you specify while compiling the GNU
-libc:
-
- configure --enable-add-ons=...,localedata ...
-
-where ... are the options you normally choose. Once you run `make
-install' for the GNU libc the data files are automatically installed in
-the right place, ready for use by the `localedef' program.
-
+Once you run `make install' for the GNU libc the data files are
+automatically installed in the right place, ready for use by the
+`localedef' program.
To compile the locale data files you simply have to decide which locale
(based on the location and the language) and which character set you
How to use these data files is described in the GNU libc manual,
especially in the section describing the `setlocale' function.
+All problems should be reported using
-The files contained here were originally from
-
- ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection
-
-Keld Jörn Simonsen from the Danish Unix User Group maintains this
-archive on behalf of the POSIX working groups. When you find some wrong
-data or want to add something please contact
-
- Keld Jörn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
-and
- Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
-
-Please make sure your corrections are relative to the originally
-distributed files. Consult the CHECKSUMS file which contains the MD5
-sums for all data files.
+ http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
One more note: the `POSIX' locale definition is not meant to be used