[SOLVED] Re: grep, ispunct() and locales/charsets

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:58:46PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Here is how I made this locale/charset combination available on my
> system:
> 
> # mkdir /usr/local/lib/locale
> # mkdir -p /usr/local/share/i18n/charmaps
> # zcat /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/CP1251.gz \
> > /usr/local/share/i18n/charmaps/CP1251
> # localedef -f /usr/local/share/i18n/charmaps/CP1251 \
> -i /usr/share/i18n/locales/mk_MK /usr/local/lib/locale/mk_MK.cp1251
> # localedef --add-to-archive /usr/local/lib/locale/mk_MK.cp1251

That's 5 times more commands than you really need:
localedef -f CP1251 -i mk_MK /tmp/mk_MK.cp1251
will create the locale and (as --no-archive was not specified) adds it
to the locale archive too.  localedef has /usr/share/i18n/.../ search
paths compiled in and handles gunzipping as well.

	Jakub