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Re: [Bug localedata/12349] Incorrect thousands separator and first weekday for eu_ES locale


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:33:47PM +0000, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12349
> 
> Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>                  CC|                            |carlos at redhat dot com
> 
> --- Comment #6 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
> (In reply to Julen Ruiz Aizpuru from comment #5)
> > I would expect Unicode CLDR to be a valid reference. There you go:
> > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/25/by_type/numbers.symbols.
> > html#Symbols_when_using_Western_Digits_%28latn%29
> 
> Agreed, CLDR is a valid reference. In fact I think we should be copying exactly
> what they do (and we are in other bugs). Since they have far more language
> experts than we do working on the problem.

Well, I do think we have many more language experts than CLDR.
CLDR is a small group of people, where we have hundreds of experts
in libc-locale. I know for my language Danish that the CLDR data has been
erroneous, and I tried to correct it to no avail at that time.
So I gave up and I do not give too much for their info.

Best regards
Keld


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