Script does not run on OpenSuse, seems Debian/Ubuntu specific

[danfos]

Great to have a way to generate en_NL but unfortunately it does not work for me on OpenSuse and the reason seems to be that "locale-gen" is missing, it seems to be Debian/Ubuntu specific.

Found here a work-around in using /etc/locale.conf

cp -f en_NL /usr/share/i18n/locales/
localedef -i /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_NL -f UTF-8 en_NL.UTF-8
echo "en_NL.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

After the reboot I do not see an errors being reported executing "locale" so that is good.
Things that I see in the boot log are:

kwin_x11[2297]: kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "en_NL.UTF-8"

tracker-extract[3609]: Could not insert metadata for item "file:///home/user/Documents/xxxx.pdf": 22.49: invalid UTF-8 character

[mpsijm]

This is fixed by #3, right? 🙂

[PanderMusubi]

I don't support OpenSUSE myself, but please test it or check with @danfos

[danfos]

Thanks for merging the patch, issue can be closed I think.

For people running OpenSuse, if you get, after running this script still:

"kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "en_NL.UTF-8"

Open /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir and search for entries for entries with "en_BE". For every entry with "en_BE" add an entry with "en_NL".

[PanderMusubi]

@danfos can you make a PR for the README.md with what you wrote? Thanks.

[danfos]

Yes, I can make a PR, I assume for what I wrote about compose.dir, i.e. the Compose file?

Had a read in https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man5/Compose.5.xhtml based on that:

/usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir --- File listing the compose file path to use for each locale.
/usr/share/X11/locale//Compose ---System default compose file for the locale, mapped via compose.dir.

On OpenSuse compose.dir has 4 sections (--- section X --- added) and just filtering on nl_NL you get:

$ grep nl_NL /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir
--- section 1 ---
iso8859-1/Compose               nl_NL.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/Compose              nl_NL.ISO8859-15
--- section 2 ---
en_US.UTF-8/Compose             nl_NL.UTF-8
--- section 3 --
iso8859-1/Compose:              nl_NL.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/Compose:             nl_NL.ISO8859-15
--- section 4 ---
en_US.UTF-8/Compose:            nl_NL.UTF-8

What I did is adding en_NL variants of this.

I am wondering if other distributions also have compose.dir like this?