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diff --git a/localedata/README b/localedata/README deleted file mode 100644 index 3e828986c1..0000000000 --- a/localedata/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ - POSIX locale descriptions - and - POSIX character set descriptions - -Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <2004/11/27 13:06:54 drepper> -drepper@redhat.com - - -This directory contains the data needed to build the locale data files -to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc. - -POSIX.2 describes the `localedef' utility which is part of the GNU libc. -You need this program to "compile" the locale description in a form -suitable for fast access by the GNU libc functions. Any compilation is -based on a given character set. - -Once you run `make install' for the GNU libc the data files are -automatically installed in the right place, ready for use by the -`localedef' program. - -To compile the locale data files you simply have to decide which locale -(based on the location and the language) and which character set you -use. E.g., French speaking Canadians would use the locale `fr_CA' and -the character set `ISO_8859-1,1987'. Calling `localedef' to get the -desired data should happen like this: - - localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 fr_CA - -This will place the 6 output files in the appropriate directory where -the GNU libc functions can find them. Please note that you need -permission to write to this directory ($(prefix)/share/locale, where -$(prefix) is the value you specified while configuring GNU libc). If -you do not have the necessary permissions, you can write the files into an -arbitrary directory by giving a path including a '/' character instead -of `fr_CA'. E.g., to put the new files in a subdirectory of the -current directory simply use - - localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 ./fr_CA - -How to use these data files is described in the GNU libc manual, -especially in the section describing the `setlocale' function. - -All problems should be reported using - - http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ - - -One more note: the `POSIX' locale definition is not meant to be used -as an input file for `localedef'. It is rather there to show the -values with are built in the libc binaries as default values when no -legal locale is found or the "C" or "POSIX" locale is selected. - - - The collation test suite - ######################## - -This package also contains a (beginning of a) test suite for the -collation functions in the GNU libc. The files are provided sorted. -The test program shuffles the lines and sort them afterwards. - -Some of the files are provided in 8bit form, i.e., not only ASCII -characters. So the tools you use to process the files should be 8bit -clean. - -To run the test program the appropriate locale information must be -installed. Therefore the localedef program is used to generate this -data used the locale and charmap description files contained here. -Since we cannot run the localedef program in case of cross-compilation -no tests at all are performed. - - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Local Variables: - mode:text - eval:(load-library "time-stamp") - eval:(make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks) - eval:(add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) - eval:(setq time-stamp-format '(time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd time-stamp-hh:mm:ss user-login-name)) -End: |