1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index 8a7760724e..d39a1afb70 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 def legitimize_package_name(s):
+        import re
+
+        def fixutf(m):
+                cp = m.group(1)
+                if cp:
+                        return ('\u%s' % cp).decode('unicode_escape').encode('utf-8')
+
+        # Handle unicode codepoints encoded as <U0123>, as in glibc locale files.
+        s = re.sub('<U([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})>', fixutf, s)
+
+        # Remaining package name validity fixes
         return s.lower().replace('_', '-').replace('@', '+').replace(',', '+').replace('/', '-')
 
 STAGING_PKGMAPS_DIR ?= "${STAGING_DIR}/pkgmaps"