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- From: valentin@cbmvax.uucp (Valentin Pepelea)
-
- I am having trouble determining how locales are supposed to be organized.
- Examples in manuals show /usr/lib/locale/C and /usr/lib/locale/french to
- be valid locales:
-
- /usr/lib/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES/ ; message catalogue
- /LC_MONETARY ; monetary table
- /LC_COLLATE ; sorting information
- /LC_NUMERIC ; numeric printing info
- /LC_TIME ; date and time info
-
- /usr/lib/locale/french/LC_MESSAGES/
- /LC_MONETARY
- /LC_COLLATE
- /LC_NUMERIC
- /LC_TIME
-
- Now, grouping locale definitions according to language (as in /french or
- /german) makes sense for message catalogues, but monetary and date tables
- should be grouped according to country or territory, not languages. In Canada
- for example, the date and monetary formats are different from France and
- England, but both French and English is spoken there.
-
- So are we supposed to also have a /england, /canada, /usa and /france locales?
- If we have both the /england and /english locales, where should the default
- LC_MESSAGES catalogue be located?
-
- Valentin
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 81
-
-