Propose we allow locales without country codes.
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Tue Nov 26 13:34:00 GMT 2013
On 11/25/2013 08:31 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:52:35AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell 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?
>
> I propose that glibc also accept such locales for languages whose
> speakers are dispersed around the world and not likely to have a
> locale for the combination of their language and country, and for
> languages used by displaced peoples who do not have a country at all.
Clarification noted. I find nothing wrong with accepting locales for
such languages.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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