[PATCH] localedata: en_NL: new English in the Netherlands locale [BZ #14085]
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Fri Apr 22 16:10:00 GMT 2016
* Mike Frysinger:
> +% English language locale for the Netherlands.
> +% Internationally oriented users who are physically located in the Netherlands
> +% use software mainly in the English language. Therefore they have their
> +% systems usually configured to US English International. However, due to the
> +% geographic location, it can be desirable for certain data to be represented
> +% according to the local Dutch notation while the rest remains in English.
Why is this necessary? Isn't this use case the reason for having
separate LC_* environment variables, so that you can mix-and-match
locales like this? In other words, glibc doesn't need to provide a
pre-cooked locale.
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