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[Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 14:03:37 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME
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- References: <bug-4628-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628
--- Comment #12 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #11)
> (In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #10)
> > Would it suffice to provide C.utf8@iso8601 for the purposes of overriding
> > LC_TIME and allowing you to use ISO 8601 time representation in the fullest?
> > We need not duplicate all locales, ISO 8601 is language independent.
>
> See comment 6, there are many different expectations what âISO 8601â means.
Aesop's fable of the man, the boy, and the donkey ends with: "Please all and
you will please none."
I think the only tenable situation is to implement ISO 8601 as standardized.
> For size reasons, it's probably better to base the additional locales on C,
> not C.utf8.
Sure, that's fine, the ISO8601 representation needs only ASCII.
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