Le mardi 18 mai 2010 à 19:08 +0200, Yann Droneaud a écrit : > Le mardi 18 mai 2010 à 18:05 +0200, Michael J Gruber a écrit : > > Yann Droneaud venit, vidit, dixit 18.05.2010 16:41: > > > Since I don't have en_US.utf8, some tests failed: > > > > > > > On my system locale -a reports: > > > > > > en_US > > > en_US.ISO-8859-1 > > > en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > > locale -a|grep en_US > > en_US > > en_US.iso88591 > > en_US.iso885915 > > en_US.utf8 > > > > This is on Fedora 13, which is not exactly exotic. What is your system? > > > I've checked carefully multiple system and configuration, and found why we have some little locale problem here. Since glibc 2.3, a file can hold all locales in file "locale-archive" instead of having a tons of directory. To store all the locales in this file, it uses an index based on a "normalized" codeset, e.g. it converts codeset to lowercase, removes dash and minus. So when one ask for the locale list, locale first go through the "locale-archive" content and report normalized codeset (utf8) instead of canonical codeset (UTF-8), then it proceed with the legacy locales directories, using for them the canonical codeset. Until recently, Mandriva Linux doesn't make use of "locale-archive", so UTF-8 locales were reported. Version in development uses "locale-archive" + legacy locale directories, hence the mix I've reported. Other Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu uses only "locale-archive" and so, have only "normalized" codeset. POSIX doesn't specify the output of locale -a, so it's not really a bug to show "normalized" codeset name. But all others "POSIX" system I've found report "canonical" codeset, e.g. UTF-8 (all but latest cygwin). Here's the bug report: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11629 BTW, I will shortly provided a fix for the testcase, which will handle all cases. Regards. -- Yann Droneaud -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html