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Re: Introduce en_EU?
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: Mike Fabian <mfabian at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:37:55 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Introduce en_EU?
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- Reply-to: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
18.08.2017 11:11 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 08/17/2017 11:35 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > 10.08.2017 14:43 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/08/2017 09:12 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> With all due respect, I can't see any reason why _DK was chosen
> >>> to represent a generic continental European English locale.
> >>
> >> It predates the EU and the ISO reservation.
> >>
> >>> If such locale is actually needed, shouldn't we introduce en_EU
> >>> instead? _EU can be understood either as Europe or as European
> >>> Union, both could be assumed valid.
> >>
> >> ISO writes this about “EU”:
> >>
> >> “Refers to European Union and reserved at the request of ISO 4217/MA
> >> (March 1998) for ISO 6166, Securities - International securities
> >> identification numbering system (ISIN).”
> >>
> >> (See <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/> under Country codes/Other
> >> codes/Exceptionally reserved.)
> >
> > Looks good. If I understand correctly, your opinion about my idea
> > is "rather yes".
>
> Yes, I think using EU in locale identifiers makes sense.
Filed here: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22473
Regards,
Rafal