CentOS - Dec 2012 - Cannot build custom locale with utf-8 charset

I am trying, without success, to compile a custom locale for the utf-8
character set.  I have issued this command:

localedef --no-archive -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8

which produces the requisite files without reporting an error but
which none-the-less insists on using the iso-8859-1 charset:

LC_ALL=en_CA at yyyy-mm-dd locale charmap
ISO-8859-1

So, I tried this variant:

localedef --no-archive -f /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8
character map file `/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8' not found: No such
file or directory
no output file produced because warnings were issued

Missing UTF-8 file?

ll /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8*
.  .  .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240800 Aug 27 09:28 UTF-8.gz
.  .  .

Ok, let us try again:

localedef --no-archive -f /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz:1: syntax error in prolog: invalid
definition
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz:2: syntax error in prolog: invalid
definition
memory clobbered past end of allocated block
Aborted

OK, fine, be that way.

cd /usr/share/i18n/charmaps
gunzip UTF-8.gz

ll UTF-8*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1432559 Aug 27 09:28 UTF-8

localedef --no-archive -f /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8

LC_ALL=en_CA at yyyy-mm-dd locale charmap
ISO-8859-1

Ok, I give up.  What little tid-bit of information am I overlooking or
just not understanding correctly.  How do I get this thing built with
the UTF-8 character set?



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Hello James,

On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 08:52 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> localedef --no-archive -f UTF-8 -i
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8
> 
> which produces the requisite files without reporting an error but
> which none-the-less insists on using the iso-8859-1 charset:
> 
> LC_ALL=en_CA at yyyy-mm-dd locale charmap
> ISO-8859-1
How about actually using the new locale?
$ LC_ALL=en_CA at yyyy-mm-dd.utf8 locale charmap

Regards,
Leonard.

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Whether the following information is complete or entirely correct or
contains redundancies I will leave for others to comment upon.  In the
end, to completely install a working UTF-8 locale from a customized
source file in /usr/share/i18n/locales on both CentOS-5 and CentOS-6 I
had to do this:

localedef --replace -c -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf8
localedef --no-archive -c -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.utf-8
localedef --no-archive -c -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.UTF8
localedef --no-archive -c -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.UTF-8
localedef --no-archive -c -f UTF-8 -i
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd

Evidently, the archived version is expected to have the extension
.utf8 but all the other aliased extensions are customarily expected as
well.  I was unable to find where on the system said locale aliases
are kept however.  The most likely candidate that I found was
/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias but I could find no entries therein
pertaining to my customized locales.

I would like to know the exact location where locale aliases are
stored on CentOS systems if someone in the know would share that
information.


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Hello James,

On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:03 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I was unable to find where on the system said locale aliases
> are kept however.
/usr/lib/locale

Regards,
Leonard.

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