[PATCH] localedate: LC_IDENTIFICATION.category: set to ISO 14652 2002 standard

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Wed Apr 13 18:57:00 GMT 2016


On 04/13/2016 12:39 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The ISO 14652 standard defines the valid values for the category
> keyword as only two options:
> 	posix:1993
> 	i18n:2002
> 
> The vast majority of locales had changed the "i18n" string to the
> name of its own locale (e.g. "ak_GH:2013") as well as tweaking the
> date (presumably thinking it should be the date of submission).
> 
> Convert all of them to "i18n:2002" for consistency.

Any chance you can tighten the parser to reject anything but the
two valid category keywords?

I think this change is correct, but I'd rather see a patch that
enforces policy *and* changes the locale source to match.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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