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Re: [PATCH] Fix first_weekday/first_workday for EU locales


On 06/06/2012 03:37 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
Indeed.  I still don't feel comfortable with blindly updating data from
CLDR (since I'm not very familiar with the repository and its policies
yet), but given its wide userbase I see nothing wrong with taking CLDR
reference as a *very* strong supporting argument for a change.
That's the model that makes the most sense to me -- ie, CLDR as a strong supporting argument for a change. Ideally we'd get to a point where any differences between glibc and CLDR are minimal and documented.


In very long term IMHO it would be sensible to slowly reduce differences to CLDR (by appropriate changes on both sides) and finally switch to CLDR providing locale data. Avoiding two redundant databases seems even more appropriate given the recent legal opinion that locale data are not copyrighted and therefore there are no licencing and philosophical (freedom) considerations here.
The concern expressed to me (privately) is the two locale databases have significantly different formats for their data, thus consolidating down to a single database may require a nontrivial amount of work (assuming we could get to the point where everyone agreed on all the underlying data).

Jeff


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