Bug 15498

Summary: typo in gcc manual: non-existing locale example en_UK, should be en_GB
Product: gcc Reporter: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn>
Component: cAssignee: Not yet assigned to anyone <unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: gcc-bugs
Priority: P2 Keywords: documentation
Version: 3.4.0   
Target Milestone: 3.4.3   
Host: Target:
Build: Known to work:
Known to fail: Last reconfirmed: 2004-08-16 00:14:47

Description Markus Kuhn 2004-05-17 18:53:00 UTC 
In the gcc-3.4.0 manual on

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/Environment-Variables.html#Environment%20Variables

under LANG, the sentence

  A typical value is en_UK for English in the United Kingdom.

should be changed to

  A typical value is en_GB for English in the United Kingdom.

or even better

  A typical value is en_GB.UTF-8 for English in the United Kingdom
  encoded in UTF-8.

Note that POSIX standard locale names are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes,
and the code for the United Kingdom is GB, not UK. That is also what glibc uses.
There is no en_UK locale in glibc or any other known C library.

Reference:

http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html
Comment 1 Andrew Pinski 2004-05-17 19:16:04 UTC 
Actually UK is reserved:
UK - United Kingdom - reserved on request of the United Kingdom, to prevent any other country from 
using code UK; also used as ccTLD
Comment 2 Andrew Pinski 2004-05-17 19:20:07 UTC 
Confirmed.
Comment 3 GCC Commits 2004-09-14 22:30:45 UTC 
Subject: Bug 15498

CVSROOT:	/cvs/gcc
Module name:	gcc
Changes by:	jsm28@gcc.gnu.org	2004-09-14 22:30:41

Modified files:
	gcc            : ChangeLog 
	gcc/doc        : invoke.texi 

Log message:
	PR c/15498
	* doc/invoke.texi (Environment Variables): Correct example locale.

Patches:
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=2.5447&r2=2.5448
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/doc/invoke.texi.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.534&r2=1.535
Comment 4 GCC Commits 2004-09-14 22:33:16 UTC 
Subject: Bug 15498

CVSROOT:	/cvs/gcc
Module name:	gcc
Branch: 	gcc-3_4-branch
Changes by:	jsm28@gcc.gnu.org	2004-09-14 22:33:09

Modified files:
	gcc            : ChangeLog 
	gcc/doc        : invoke.texi 

Log message:
	PR c/15498
	* doc/invoke.texi (Environment Variables): Correct example locale.

Patches:
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=gcc&only_with_tag=gcc-3_4-branch&r1=2.2326.2.622&r2=2.2326.2.623
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/doc/invoke.texi.diff?cvsroot=gcc&only_with_tag=gcc-3_4-branch&r1=1.390.2.31&r2=1.390.2.32
Comment 5 Andrew Pinski 2004-09-14 23:32:38 UTC 
Fixed.