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diff --git a/localedata/README b/localedata/README index 3ef7553..8ce09c1 100644 --- a/localedata/README +++ b/localedata/README @@ -2,28 +2,21 @@ and POSIX character set descriptions -Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <1997/06/04 01:36:26 drepper> +Ulrich Drepper Time-stamp: <2000/07/20 13:08:24 aj> drepper@cygnus.com -This add-on package contains the data needed to build the locale data -files to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc. +This directory contains the data needed to build the locale data files +to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc. POSIX.2 describes the `localedef' utility which is part of the GNU libc. You need this program to "compile" the locale description in a form suitable for fast access by the GNU libc functions. Any compilation is based on a given character set. -To use these data files you should add the name of this add-on -(localedata) to the list of add-on you specify while compiling the GNU -libc: - - configure --enable-add-ons=...,localedata ... - -where ... are the options you normally choose. Once you run `make -install' for the GNU libc the data files are automatically installed in -the right place, ready for use by the `localedef' program. - +Once you run `make install' for the GNU libc the data files are +automatically installed in the right place, ready for use by the +`localedef' program. To compile the locale data files you simply have to decide which locale (based on the location and the language) and which character set you |