proposal: making sure all locales use the same section order

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ulrich Drepper]
> Why do you keep referring to this unusable write-up which has no
> approval by anybody and which does not reflect what we have in
> glibc?

I am still wondering which standard document I should be reading to
learn the format of the glibc locale files.  Do you have a reference?

Anyway, I got another idea.  Lets recommend the section order used by
locales/i18n and locales/en_US.  This way, at least some locales do
not need to change.  I suggest starting with the following patch to
localedata/README.

--- README.~1.3.~	Thu Jul 20 13:10:29 2000
+++ README	Fri Jun 20 23:12:53 2003
@@ -63,6 +63,24 @@
 values with are built in the libc binaries as default values when no
 legal locale is found or the "C" or "POSIX" locale is selected.
 
+			   Writing locales
+			   ###############
+
+It is recommended to use the same order in all locales, and the glibc
+maintainers have decided to recommend the following order:
+
+  LC_IDENTIFICATION
+  LC_CTYPE
+  LC_COLLATE
+  LC_MONETARY
+  LC_NUMERIC
+  LC_TIME
+  LC_MESSAGES
+  LC_PAPER
+  LC_NAME
+  LC_ADDRESS
+  LC_TELEPHONE
+  LC_MEASUREMENT
 
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