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Re: [PATCH] [BZ 14510] Fix LC_NUMERIC for various es_* locales
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 12:40 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>>
>> How does that matter? We can create as many locales as we wish, some
>> with strict settings, others with settings selected from community
>> voted values; letting the user select at install time which locales
>> they wish to use.
>>
>> The notion that we must have one and only one es_MX seems like an
>> auto-proposition. If we need to have only one es_MX because of
>> standards constraints then we can provide some GNU knob that says how
>> conforming you want the locale to behave and have the implementation
>> select a different file based on that.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>
> It makes sense. I hadn't really thought about creating multiple locales for
> varying levels of strictness or introducing a strictness knob.
> Jeff
Thanks.
This would be a good medium complexity project.
Added to generic project list:
http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Generic
Cheers,
Carlos.