Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:54:19 -0500 From: jbiskofski <jbiskofski@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to add es_MX locale ? Message-ID: <CAHpPzY4ozR3bk_qjrfh--ZNRdAfwiFpP0_1ihoCt=SBuxCtFsQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F8F3B8F.1@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAHpPzY7GnEJ0cgbKyUWPk=j9M3=TvhuAKptkkuo6zHJYXy_Umg@mail.gmail.com> <4F8F3B8F.1@FreeBSD.org>
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Matt, Thanks for the help I was able to build the locale I needed with your
instructions. I will be submitting it. Thanks again for your help.
- Jose
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
> On 18/04/2012 21:27, jbiskofski wrote:
> > I dont see it in the response from "locale -a". How can I add this
> locale?
>
> You'ld have to generate the appropriate locale data files for es_MX.
> Look at the equivalents for es_ES in
> /usr/share/locale/{es_ES.ISO8859-1,es_ES.ISO8859-15,es_ES.UTF-8} --
> although as ISO8859-15 is actually identical to ISO8859-1 apart from the
> addition of the Euro (=80) currency symbol you can probably skip that for
> es_MX.
>
> These LC_* files have sources in the following sub-directories of
> /usr/src/share:
>
> LC_CTYPE mklocale
> LC_COLLATE colldef
> LC_MESSAGES msgdef
> LC_MONETARY monetdef
> LC_NUMERIC numericdef
> LC_TIME timedef
>
> If you look at the Makefiles in those directories you can see how the
> different output files are generated. Note that where the source would
> be the same for many locales, only one source file is used, and the
> Makefile copies the result appropriately for other locales.
>
> For example, the LC_CTYPE files for languages written in the latin
> alphabet are generated from generic sources in /usr/src/share/mklocale
> -- so for the ISO8859-1 character set, the source code is in
> /usr/src/share/mklocale/la_LN.ISO8859-1.src
>
> Once you've got the es_MX files sorted out, submit your changes as a
> diff by using send-pr(1), and try and get a committer interested in
> adding them to the tree. You probably won't need to write many es_MX
> specific files -- it could be just monetdef/es_MX.UTF-8.src [*] to
> specify the currency -- but you will need to add the right bits to the
> Makefiles to get the other es_MX LC_* files properly generated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> [*] I believe UTF-8 is preferred nowadays, rather than ISO8859-1 or
> ISO8859-15.
>
> --
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
> PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey
>
>
>
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