Bug 19010 - en_ID: new locale for Indonesian English
Summary: en_ID: new locale for Indonesian English
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: localedata (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2015-09-27 02:10 UTC by Gary Dean
Modified: 2017-10-21 08:11 UTC (History)
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Indonesian Engilsh locale file (en_ID) (1.40 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-27 02:10 UTC, Gary Dean
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Description Gary Dean 2015-09-27 02:10:34 UTC
Created attachment 8636 [details]
Indonesian Engilsh locale file (en_ID)

The Indonesian Open Technology Foundation (Yatti) supports the development of an English for Indonesia locale for Linux (en_ID).

While English is not widely spoken in Indonesia as a proportion of its total population, it is still used widely in business and the professions and by the urban middle class.

Probably 3-5% of Indonesia's 255 million people use English on a daily basis (~, or three times the English-speaking population of Singapore.

The en_ID locale conforms to Indonesian standards relating to country codes, currency, time and date formats. 

Combinatorial locales present unsatisfactory compromises and lead to inconsistency across systems within the country, creating confusion.

There is no satisfactory combination of existing locales (eg, en_US language with id_ID region) that accommodate English language and region settings. 

The en_ID locale is currently used in the Ubuntu Indonesia desktop distro.

Reference version of the en_ID locale file is located at http://yatti.id/en_ID/en_ID
Comment 1 Gunnar Hjalmarsson 2015-09-27 22:53:48 UTC
Patch sent to mailing list:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2015-q3/msg00217.html