Re: zh_HK.big5 locale

[Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>]

On 2018-02-09 18:48, Steven Penny wrote:
> I see that the "zh_HK" locale and friends exist:
> 
>    $ locale -a | grep zh_HK
>    zh_HK
>    zh_HK.utf8
>    zh_HK@cjknarrow
>    zh_HK.utf8@cjknarrow
> 
> However I am not seeing the "zh_HK.big5" or "zh_HK.big5hkscs" variants.
> Installing "gettext" adds these:
> 
>    bokmal catalan croatian czech danish dansk deutsch dutch eesti estonian
>    finnish french galego galician german greek hebrew hrvatski hungarian
>    icelandic italian ja_JP ja_JP.ujis japanese japanese.euc japanese.sjis
>    ko_KR korean korean.euc lithuanian no_NO no_NO.ISO-8859-1 norwegian nynorsk
>    polish portuguese romanian russian slovak slovene slovenian spanish swedish
>    thai turkish
> 
> but not the desired locales. These are available with Fedora [1], but at appears
> that at least previously [2] these were not supported by Windows. I am just
> wondering if these locales are still not supported by Windows.
> 
> [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/422171
> [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-02/msg00024.html

It appears to be the default for territories using zh [paths genericized]:

$ locale -m
...
BIG5
...
$ locale -av
...

locale: zh_HK           archive: /proc/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 language | Chinese (Traditional)
territory | Hong Kong SAR
  codeset | BIG5

...

locale: zh_HK@cjknarrow archive: /proc/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 language | Chinese (Traditional)
territory | Hong Kong SAR
  codeset | BIG5

...
etc.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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