http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-11-09 21:22 -------
Still slightly wrong.

"The glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED lists the locales officially
supported by the Glibc developers. Install that file...". We don't install that
file, don't say that we do. Also the "official support" status means absulutely
nothing, there's at least one non-working locale listed there (vi_VN.TCVN).
Please revert the text before the command to its original state. The text after
the command is good.

"When trying such a fix, be sure to check that Glibc supports the newly chosen
locale too, using the tests outlined earlier in this section."

Basically you currently just say that with both old and new locale, the "locale
charmap" command should give no errors. The actual requirement is more strict:
it should print exactly the same.

The idea is to choose a locale name that is known good for glibc and matches the
user's expectations about character map and currency. Then, in the case Xlib
fails to recognize this locale, find something that is treated 100% equivalently
by glibc, but recognized by Xlib.

Also please change:

"using a real-world example that Xlib lacks support for" -> "using a real-world
locale example that Xlib doesn't recognize"

As for the modifiers, "locale -a" does show some examples that contain modifiers
such as "@euro". So the task is to explain the fact that the "@" sign and
everything after it form a modifier.

"If you suffer any of the symptoms shown above" -> never happens due to glibc
test if the reader follows the book. But let it stay as it is, because I can't
find any better wording to introduce glibc error message.

"Due to improper locale chioce, other packages may also fail to function
correctly, with or without outputting any error messages" -> please put this to
a separate paragraph at the bottom. Otherwise, there's no good place for me to
add other failure modes in the UTF-8 book.



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