>
>
>>either setlocale() is buggy;
>>or the nls(7) man page is wrong;
>>    
>>
>
>No - the format is correct as specified in the man page. The point is that
>just not *all* lexical valid combinations are installed.
>
>You probably can fix the cases you are interested in with a few symlinks
>in /usr/share/locale. Which of these cases should be delivered by the base
>install is something we could argue about.
>  
>
perfect... that's the best solution to my problem.

Thanks.

JL

PS: Perhaps there should be a note about this in the man page?