[PATCH] [BZ 14510] Fix LC_NUMERIC for various es_* locales

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 01:52:00 GMT 2012


On 09/12/2012 12:40 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
> How does that matter? We can create as many locales as we wish, some
> with strict settings, others with settings selected from community
> voted values; letting the user select at install time which locales
> they wish to use.
>
> The notion that we must have one and only one es_MX seems like an
> auto-proposition. If we need to have only one es_MX because of
> standards constraints then we can provide some GNU knob that says how
> conforming you want the locale to behave and have the implementation
> select a different file based on that.
>
> Does that make sense?
It makes sense.  I hadn't really thought about creating multiple locales 
for varying levels of strictness or introducing a strictness knob.
Jeff



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