[PATCH] localedata: i18napis: update LC_ADDRESS.country_post
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 08:12:00 GMT 2016
On 06/11/2016 04:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i have no problem dropping postal_fmt & country_post from all locales and
> telling people to use libaddressinput. after all, it's not like glibc has
> functions to format postal_fmt in the first place -- it's left up to the
> app to do the printf logic itself, and iirc, last time i searched, there
> was no one doing that.
GNOME uses it to determine the street/dwelling number ordering for
formatting results from an Openstreetmap-related location service.
I posit that this is incorrect because it should use the locale of the
location, and not the locale of the user. A German address needs to be
formatted according to German conventions, even if the user is using an
English locale.
So yes, this should not be a blocker for moving to libaddressinput.
Thanks,
Florian
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