Remove obsolete aliases that broke 'locale -a'

[BZ #18412]
* intl/locale.alias: Remove obsolete aliases "bokmål" and "français"
which caused 'locale -a' to output Latin-1 data in UTF-8 locales,
breaking some applications that use 'locale -a' output.
Change the encoding of this file from Latin-1 to ASCII to avoid
other potential problems with people grepping this file.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b4a7adb..f546455 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2015-05-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       Remove obsolete aliases that broke 'locale -a'
+       [BZ #18412]
+       * intl/locale.alias: Remove obsolete aliases "bokmål" and "français"
+       which caused 'locale -a' to output Latin-1 data in UTF-8 locales,
+       breaking some applications that use 'locale -a' output.
+       Change the encoding of this file from Latin-1 to ASCII to avoid
+       other potential problems with people grepping this file.
+
 2015-05-22  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
 
        * nptl/Makefile (CFLAGS-accept.c): Add -fexceptions and

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 23fcbaa..529b79b 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Version 2.22
   18029, 18030, 18032, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042, 18043, 18046, 18047,
   18049, 18068, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104, 18110, 18111, 18125, 18128,
   18138, 18185, 18196, 18197, 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18220, 18221,
-  18244, 18247, 18287, 18319, 18333, 18346, 18397, 18409, 18418, 18434,
-  18444.
+  18244, 18247, 18287, 18319, 18333, 18346, 18397, 18409, 18412, 18418,
+  18434, 18444.
 
 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
   _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.

diff --git a/intl/locale.alias b/intl/locale.alias
index ab1cb7a..fe19e1b 100644 (file)
--- a/intl/locale.alias
+++ b/intl/locale.alias
@@ -24,8 +24,18 @@
 # backward compatibility.  Nobody should rely on the names defined here.
 # Locales should always be specified by their full name.
 
+# Note: This file used to contain the following lines:
+#      bokmaal         nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
+#      franc,ais       fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
+# except that the "aa" was actually the byte '\0xE5' (the Latin-1
+# encoding for U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE) and the
+# "c," was actually the byte '\xE7' (the Latin-1 encoding for U+00E7
+# LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA).  These lines were removed
+# because they caused 'locale -a' to output text encoded in Latin-1,
+# which broke applications in UTF-8 locales.  See:
+# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18412
+
 bokmal         nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
-bokmål         nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
 catalan                ca_ES.ISO-8859-1
 croatian       hr_HR.ISO-8859-2
 czech          cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2
@@ -36,7 +46,6 @@ dutch         nl_NL.ISO-8859-1
 eesti          et_EE.ISO-8859-1
 estonian       et_EE.ISO-8859-1
 finnish         fi_FI.ISO-8859-1
-français       fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
 french         fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
 galego         gl_ES.ISO-8859-1
 galician       gl_ES.ISO-8859-1