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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Jose,

One problem with locales is that the naming schema changes from one OS 
to another ;  we've had problems on SunOS, HPUX and FreeBSD with this 
including different cases, charset mentionned or not, missing characters 
(dashes),...

One most OS the locales are named ll_CC.ISO-8859-N whereas on FreeBSD it 
is ll_CC.ISO8859-N, with a missing dash ('-') after the ISO part. Over 
the time, we've made Sympa try different locales to adapt to each OS, 
see Language::SetLang() :

       ## Set Locale::Messages context
       my $locale_dashless = $locale.'.'.$locale2charset{$locale};
       $locale_dashless =~ s/-//g;
       foreach my $type (&POSIX::LC_ALL, &POSIX::LC_TIME) {
       my $success;
       foreach my $try ($locale.'.'.$locale2charset{$locale},
                $locale.'.'.uc($locale2charset{$locale}),  ## UpperCase
   required for FreeBSD
                $locale_dashless, ## Required on HPUX
                $locale,
                $lang
                ) {
           if (&setlocale($type, $try)) {
           $success = 1;
           last;
           }   
       }
       unless ($success) {
           &do_log('err','Failed to setlocale(%s) ; you either have a
   problem with the catalogue .mo files or you should extend available
   locales in  your /etc/locale.gen (or /etc/sysconfig/i18n) file',
   $locale);
           return undef;
       }
       }

It looks like we'll have to patch it again for FreeBSD users. We'll send 
a patch in this list today or tomorrow.

Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz a écrit :
> I'm trying to upgrade sympa (5.2.1 -> 5.3.2) on FreeBSD.
>
> When I type make, I get :
>
> Checking available locales ...
> #########################################################################################################
> ## IMPORTANT : Sympa is not able to use locales because they are not properly 
> configured on this server
> ## You should activate some of the following locales :
> ##     bg_BG cs_CZ de_DE el_GR en_US es_ES et_EE eu_ES fi_FI fr_FR hu_HU 
> it_IT ja_JP nb_NO nl_NL oc_FR pl_PL pt_BR pt_PT ro_RO ru _RU sv_SE tr_TR zh_CN
> ## On Debian you should run the following command : dpkg-reconfigure locales
> ## On others systems, check /etc/locale.gen or /etc/sysconfig/i18n files
> #########################################################################################################
>
> But whey I check installed locales, I get :
>
> $ locale -a | more
> C
> POSIX
> af_ZA.ISO8859-1
> af_ZA.ISO8859-15
> af_ZA.UTF-8
> [...]
> Is it serious, doctor ??? How can I get rid of this ?
>