Subject: Re: Locale
To: Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.palo-alto.ca.us>
From: Sergey N. Lapin <slapin@tec.karelen.elektra.ru>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/13/2001 22:58:24
> > > Yes, at last in 1.4 and 1.5 (don't remember for previous releases).
> > > LC_CTYPE support is incomplete though (up to 1.5, it's OK in -current): there's
> > > support in libc but only 'C' is here. You can install
> > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/1.4-french/locale.tgz
> > > (I'm not sure of '1.4-french' but there's 'french' in the directory name)
> > > and then you can set LC_CTYPE to iso_8859_1 (don't worry about 'i386',
> > > locale.tgz is machine independant).
> > 
> > Thank you but are there any tools to create locale files available? Could
> > I use Linux locale files?
Actually, I just checked, and found that, Linux LC* files are
incompatible. iso-8859-1 file seems to work, but it is not what I want...
How to create that files, really?

Thanks for help,
S.