Propose we allow locales without country codes.

[Chris Leonard]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> Community,
>
> I'm proposing we allow locales without country codes in order
> to accept international languages without country codes as
> valid locales e.g. eo.
>
> The infrastructure in glibc appears to support locales without
> country codes. We don't know what issues might crop up downstream.
> We should just fix downstream as new locales without country codes
> are created.
>
> Does anyone object to this? Does anyone see any serious problems?
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.


It is worth noting that Debian/Ubuntu downstreams seem to use
lang-only locales to solve the lang-eo issue, so there is some
indication that this will work.  I'd love to know what Redhat does.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/locales/filelist
(/usr/share/i18n/locales/eo)
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/locales/filelist
(/usr/share/i18n/locales/eo)

cjl