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Re: Propose we allow locales without country codes.
- From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>, Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw dot cz>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:19:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: Propose we allow locales without country codes.
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> Community,
>
> I'm proposing we allow locales without country codes in order
> to accept international languages without country codes as
> valid locales e.g. eo.
>
> The infrastructure in glibc appears to support locales without
> country codes. We don't know what issues might crop up downstream.
> We should just fix downstream as new locales without country codes
> are created.
>
> Does anyone object to this? Does anyone see any serious problems?
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
It is worth noting that Debian/Ubuntu downstreams seem to use
lang-only locales to solve the lang-eo issue, so there is some
indication that this will work. I'd love to know what Redhat does.
[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/locales/filelist
(/usr/share/i18n/locales/eo)
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/locales/filelist
(/usr/share/i18n/locales/eo)
cjl