[Bug localedata/14085] en_NL: new locale (English language for the Netherlands)

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14085

--- Comment #13 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #12)
> There is no consensus, and in fact there is opposition to the addition of
> en_* locales for all countries that deal with English. Stated reasons
> include: size of install, increased number of locales to pick from,
> complexity on the user side for selecting those locales (Chris Leonard's
> "maximum parsimony" theory ;-)). Instead the generally accepted idea is that
> you should mix-and-match the LC_* variables as needed, with the knowledge
> that this is not the most flexible way to solve this problem. Individual
> distributions are free to include whatever en_* locales they wish to build
> to suit their users. Likewise, users can do the same thing.
> 
> Therefore until there is consensus formed around this issue I'm marking this
> bug as RESOLVED/WONTFIX.

I failed to mention that Mike Frysinger's suggestion of a new way to
mix-and-match language/territory is probably the right place to start for a
solution to this problem that doesn't include new locales.

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