Subject: Re: Locales name clash between Linux and NetBSD
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/10/2002 10:17:42
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:48:42PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> I've set "LC_CTYPE" in my environment to "de_DE.ISO8859-15" so that NetBSD
> will support national characters in locale aware applications. This works
> not with emulated Linux program unfortunately. They want either "de",
> "de_DE", "de_DE@euro" or "german" but NetBSD accepts none of these.
> Solaris accepts "de", "de_DE" and "de_DE.ISO8859-15".
> 
> Should we add some aliases to our locale definitions? If so which ones?

Wouldn't "LC_CTYPE=de ./linuxprog" be enough?

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>