Dial Australia: locale data fixed for international dialing
As you might or might not know the international dialing prefix for outgoing international calls changed from 09 to 00 recently. You didn’t know? Try dialing 09 now and see how far you get.
To make sure our glibc locale data is up to date we released a new version of the locales. Actually its just English that needs to change as all the other 10 inherit the telephone section from it.
What does this mean? Not much, except that applications that get the international select code from the locale will now get South Africa’s correct. For us its also a simple indicator that free software really is empowering. We’ve changed this we haven’t had to wait for work arounds while someone feeds this up to the powers that be.
You can download the new locale data package (you need to know what you’re doing) or track the glibc bug.