Re: Slides from the I18N BOF

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:45:44PM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> tis 2003-06-24 klockan 17.49 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > > I've just put up the slides from the I18N BOF at GU4DEC on
> > > http://www.menthos.com/l10n/menthos-bof.sxi and 
> > > http://www.menthos.com/l10n/gu4dec-i18n-bof/ (HTML version). They also
> > > contain my very brief mental notes from the discussions.
> > 
> > what are examples of errors in glibc locales?
> 
> Some locale values for the different categories are obviously incorrect.
> The problem seems to be that they don't always get checked or properly
> verified before getting defined in the locales.
> 
> At some point in time en_CA had A4 as the default paper size for
> example, which is obviously incorrect as you'll reportedly have trouble
> finding anything else than US paper formats in ordinary stationary shops
> in Canada, or so I've heard. So we can't always trust these values,
> although we'd like to, and we need to direct such bug reports to the
> proper place and make sure they also get fixed. That was what's brought
> up at the session IIRC.

OK, there will always be errors, the problem is to report them and
correct them. I am helping out on that process with the glibc alpha
list. I would just like to know which examples there are, then I would
like to try to follow up on these errors and get them corrected.
So if you could post the errors here, or mail them directly to me or
report them to the alpha list, that would be fine.

Best regards
keld