Re: [PATCH] localedata: i18napis: update LC_ADDRESS.country_post

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 06/11/2016 04:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> i have no problem dropping postal_fmt & country_post from all locales and
> telling people to use libaddressinput.  after all, it's not like glibc has
> functions to format postal_fmt in the first place -- it's left up to the
> app to do the printf logic itself, and iirc, last time i searched, there
> was no one doing that.

GNOME uses it to determine the street/dwelling number ordering for 
formatting results from an Openstreetmap-related location service.

I posit that this is incorrect because it should use the locale of the 
location, and not the locale of the user.  A German address needs to be 
formatted according to German conventions, even if the user is using an 
English locale.

So yes, this should not be a blocker for moving to libaddressinput.

Thanks,
Florian