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FS#3926 - Locale data needs to be updated

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrew Conkling (andrewski) - Tuesday, 07 February 2006, 22:50 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 25 March 2006, 13:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I'm not sure about every locale, but en_GB is messed up. I noticed the problem with GTK+'s calendar widget (you can run one with `zenity --calendar`). This bug has more info: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330318. As does this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56657. I'd like to say I know where the problem lies and what to do about it, but admittedly, I don't.

(It sounds like this is by no means just an Arch problem; I've noticed it on Ubuntu and other distros were mentioned on both of those bugs. However, I'm not sure how locale data is generated, so I'm not sure if this belongs upstream or not.)
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 14:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Monday, 13 February 2006, 13:11 GMT
i suggest to regenerate the locale by doing the folowing:

run as root:
* localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB
* then set LOCALE in rc.conf to en_GB.UTF-8.
* reboot.

should that not help, you may already know that many multi-byte locales (including utf8) are more or less broken. so i have one more suggestion: use your iso pendant if you haven't tired that yet.
by the way, arch's glibc at least shows me that Sunday is the first day in the week so is it reall a problem with gtk+?

Comment by Andrew Conkling (andrewski) - Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 19:56 GMT
OK, I'll try regenerating my locale. A few general questions:
1. What the heck is "ISO pendant"? :)
2. From http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318694 (of which mine ended up being a duplicate, whoops), it seems that the problem is with the locales and not with GTK+. And as far as I know, the locales are part of glibc?

The issue is that en_GB should have Monday as the first day of the week, but the very first day in the calendar is set to a Sunday, which overrides the Monday setting. (In other words, first_weekday=1 is going off of the very first week loaded in the calendar, not just the day="Sunday;etc." setting.) Very confusing, at least for me.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 23:33 GMT
is this fixed ?

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