Musl: Difference between revisions

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Alpine Linux uses musl as its C standard library. Musl does not implement most of the locale features that glibc implements.

Refer to Open Issues page of musl-libc wiki for a brief note on the list of major open issues.

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-Alpine Linux uses musl as its C standard library.
+Alpine Linux uses [https://musl.libc.org/ musl] as its C standard library. Musl does not implement most of the [[Locale|locale]] features that glibc implements.
-== Locale ==
+Refer to [https://wiki.musl-libc.org/open-issues Open Issues] page of musl-libc wiki for a brief note on the list of major open issues.
-To Fix unicode defaults:
-<code>sed -i 's/#unicode="NO"/#unicode="NO"\nunicode="YES"/' /etc/rc.conf</code>
-Musl does not implement most of the locale features that glibc implements. The {{Pkg|musl-locales}}  provides the <code>locale</code> command  and [https://git.adelielinux.org/adelie/musl-locales translations with varying degrees of completion].
+== See also ==
-The below command installs a limited set of locales (languages) for musl (C library) generated console messages.
-{{Cmd|# apk add musl-locales}}
-To list defined locales use the below command:
-{{cmd|locale -a}}
-{{Todo|Need to check which of the below is correct:
-* This package includes a file in <code>/etc/profile.d/00locale.sh</code>. You'll need to re-login or source it manually for locales to work
-* Copy the default locale settings file {{Path|/etc/profile.d/20locale.sh}} to custom override file{{Path|/etc/profile.d/20locale.sh.sh}} so that the custom override file can be edited with <Code>nano /etc/profile.d/locale.sh.sh</Code>.
-{{Cmd|cp /etc/profile.d/20locale.sh /etc/profile.d/20locale.sh.sh}}
-}}
-== Language support ==
-<!--
-Need to identify proper page for maintaining this information, if this is not appropriate -->
-To pull in the translation packages of all installed packages:
-{{Cmd|# apk add lang}}
-To list available hunspell dictionary packages, so that you relevant language dictionary can be added:
-{{Cmd|# apk list hunspell*}}
-To list translation packages for your specific(xy) language:
-{{Cmd|apk list *-xy *-xy-*}}
-For example, to list translation packages for Portuguese(pt) language:
-{{Cmd|apk list *-pt *-pt-*}}
-== See Also ==
 * [https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html Functional differences between musl and glibc]
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