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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix yesexpr in en_DK locale


>decoded:
> 
>    diff --git a/localedata/locales/en_DK b/localedata/locales/en_DK
>    index 351c84b..2087786 100644
>    --- a/localedata/locales/en_DK
>    +++ b/localedata/locales/en_DK
>    @@ -128,10 +128,7 @@ first_weekday 2
>     END LC_TIME
> 
>     LC_MESSAGES
>    -yesexpr "^[+1JjsSyYoO]"
>    -noexpr  "^[-0nN]"
>    -yesstr  "yes"
>    -nostr   "no"
>    +copy "en_US"
>     END LC_MESSAGES
> 
>     LC_PAPER
> 
>Hm, first I thought that this might be a similar case to en_CA which has:
> 
>    LC_MESSAGES
>    % Accept both English "Yes" and French "Oui" as Canada is bilingual.
>    yesexpr "^[+1yYoO]"
>    % Accept both Engish "No" and French "Non" as Canada is bilingual.
>    noexpr  "^[-0nN]"
>    % yes - Display only the English "yes". While Canada is bilingual it would be
>    %       difficult to display two words e.g. yes|oui, where one word is expected.
>    %       Thus given that the majority of the population is Anglophone we use only
>    %       the English word for yesstr.
>    yesstr  "yes"
>    % no - Display only the English "no". See the rationale for yesstr.
>    nostr   "no"
>    END LC_MESSAGES
> 
>But in Danish, "yes" would be "ja" and "no" would be "nej".
>So
> 
>    yesexpr "^[+1jJyY]"
> 
>might make sense, but I have no idea where "sSoO" could come
>from. Apparently not from Faroese or Greenlandic either (These are
>recognized minority languages in Denmark).
> 
>Checking with git blame shows me that en_DK always had these yesexpr and
>noexpr.
> 
>So this seems to me just a mistake and “copy "en_US"” is probably OK.
 
sS is in Spanish "si"
yY is in English "yes"

I believe my changes are ok

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