[bugs] [illumos gate - Feature #1215] use localedef "copy" statements for UTF-8 ctype etc.

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Issue #1215 has been updated by Garrett D'Amore.


I had contemplated using this, but had decided originally not to do it, because I wanted to minimize any edits or massaging I was performing on the locale data files from CLDR.  I still think this is a valid reason to do what we're doing today.
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Feature #1215: use localedef "copy" statements for UTF-8 ctype etc.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1215

Author: Gordon Ross
Status: New
Priority: Normal
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Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


The XPG4 localedef input grammar has a "copy" statement.  (See:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html#tag_07_03
and http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/localedef.html for details.)

Rather than edit our UTF-8 localedef input files at compile time (as introduced by the fix for issue 922) we should create under source code management a new common file, and use a "copy" statement in the localedef files to define the LC_CTYPE section of each.  Might also be possibe for LC_COLLATE sections, if they turn out the same across many UTF-8 localedef files.

The motivation for this is mostly that big generated files a build time are an annoyance because you can't search their contents on web-based source browsers like bitbucket or github.
They also slow down the build a little.



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