Package: locales Version: 2.11.2-10 Tags: patch Severity: important User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu
I discovered this while investigating a solution for #657086. The problem is that the transliteration rules for nb_NO (and perhaps also the general rules are incomplete and wrong. This causes bogus gecos and user names to be generated in GOsa. This is what I get at the moment: % echo ÆØÅæøå | iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT AE?Aae?a % This is what I expect: % echo ÆØÅæøå | iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT AeOeAaaeoeaa % In /usr/share/i18n/locales/nb_NO, I find this block: translit_start include "translit_combining";"" translit_end This surprised me, as the original nb_NO locale in GNU libc look like this and I knew this from when I worked on glibc locales: translit_start include "translit_combining";"" % Norwegian transliteration % LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE -> "Aa" <U00C5> "<U0041><U030A>";"<U0041><U0061>" % LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE -> "aa" <U00E5> "<U0061><U030A>";"<U0061><U0061>" % LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE -> "Oe" <U00D8> "<U004F><U0338>";"<U004F><U0065>" % LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE -> "oe" <U00F8> "<U006F><U0338>";"<U006F><U0065>" % LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE -> "Ae" <U00C6> "<U0041><U0065>" % LATIN SMALL LETTER AE -> "ae" <U00E6> "<U0061><U0065>" translit_end This adjustment to the transliteration rules seem to have been lost when switching from glibc to eglibc. Please apply this patch to the nb_NO locale, to at least get correct transliteration with nb_NO and nn_NO locales. --- /usr/share/i18n/locales/nb_NO 2011-01-23 21:25:44.000000000 +0100 +++ /tmp/nb_NO.new 2012-01-26 19:04:18.000000000 +0100 @@ -127,6 +127,21 @@ translit_start include "translit_combining";"" + +% Norwegian transliteration +% LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE -> "Aa" +<U00C5> "<U0041><U030A>";"<U0041><U0061>" +% LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE -> "aa" +<U00E5> "<U0061><U030A>";"<U0061><U0061>" +% LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE -> "Oe" +<U00D8> "<U004F><U0338>";"<U004F><U0065>" +% LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE -> "oe" +<U00F8> "<U006F><U0338>";"<U006F><U0065>" +% LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE -> "Ae" +<U00C6> "<U0041><U0065>" +% LATIN SMALL LETTER AE -> "ae" +<U00E6> "<U0061><U0065>" + translit_end END LC_CTYPE -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl39b2nxhb....@diskless.uio.no