[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #17 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to James B. Byrne from comment #15)
> (In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #12) 
> > 
> > Yes, that is true. It's hard to validate this data and there are few
> > interested developers working on it. We went through a large spat of
> > cleanups a few years back where I diligently emailed 20 or 30 embassys and
> > none got back to me. My inclination is that legal requirements are moot at
> > this point, users want locales that match their customs and styles, and
> > governments need custom locales anyeways to meet their often stricter need.
> >
> 
> I am not in the happy position of being able to dictate to the Canada
> Revenue Agency how we will format our date time sequences when transmitting
> data; quite the reverse in fact.  We solved this problem for ourselves
> through my efforts but it seems to me likely that others will encounter it
> and it seems to me a needless burden to place on the shoulders of others.

Agreed.

> I point out that he Libre/Open Office developers will not provide a
> straight-forward way to set a default date and time format other than
> through the system locale (to do so requires creation of custom templates
> for each document type).  So this is not simply an issue that affects a
> handful of rarefied users. Canadian and U.S. banks also now require dates in
> yyyy-mm-dd format.  What was acceptable sixteen years ago is long deprecated
> in practice.

In which case you argue that all users may need to more easily adjust their
system locales? It seems this is simply a flaw in Libre Office that needs
correcting, changing your locale to print or output documents in a particular
format is bad design. It might be a good workaround until Libre Office is fixed
though.

> The present arrangement is the absolute antithesis of the current UX buzz.

Yes.

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