Re: iw

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@myware.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Date: Fri Dec 20 1996 - 21:21:29 EST


unicode@Unicode.ORG writes:

> Even though UNIX is closer to the metal, I'd strongly recommend it there
> as well. If they are safely kept internal, it doesn't matter much what
> the letters are out of the 26x26 possibilities: aa, ab, ac, ad, ... zx,
> zy, zz.

The locale implementation in the X Window System has a file called
locale.alias which is exactly for this purpose: it maps a
human-readable name to the internal names. For GNU libc I implemented
this, too.

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