locale en_EN vs. en_GB/en_US
Jakub Jelinek
jakub at redhat.com
Fri Sep 29 11:37:41 UTC 2006
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:12:40PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Does the locale en_EN exist?
No.
> $ python -c 'import locale; print locale.normalize("english");'
> en_EN.ISO8859-1
Sounds like a Xorg bug to me. Of course asking for english locale
is wrong too, there isn't a clear answer what should that be, there are
many countries where english is natively spoken, but certainly it shouldn't
give an inexistent locale.
/usr/share/locale/locale.alias doesn't mention english nor en_EN anywhere,
but X11 locale.alias does:
grep -i english /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias /etc/gdm/locale.alias /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:English_United-States.437 C
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_uk.8859 en_GB.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_us.8859 en_US.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_us.ascii en_US.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english.iso88591 en_EN.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:English_United-States.437: C
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_uk.8859: en_GB.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_us.8859: en_US.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english_us.ascii: en_US.ISO8859-1
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias:english.iso88591: en_EN.ISO8859-1
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(USA) en_US.UTF-8,en_US
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(Australia) en_AU.UTF-8,en_AU
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(UK) en_GB.UTF-8,en_GB
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(Canada) en_CA.UTF-8,en_CA
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(Ireland) en_IE.UTF-8,en_IE
/etc/gdm/locale.alias:English(SouthAfrica) en_ZA.UTF-8,en_ZA
Jakub
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