[Bug localedata/12349] Incorrect thousands separator and first weekday for eu_ES locale

[Keld Simonsen]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:11:46AM +0000, myllynen at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12349
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> Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com> changed:
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> --- Comment #10 from Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com> ---
> Perhaps there are certain locales where glibc is better maintained but in
> general CLDR looks to have more experts involved. For example, in some cases
> there are national initiatives which work directly with CLDR. This is not
> surprising given the vendor independent nature of CLDR. Now that Microsoft has
> also joined CLDR [1] as contributing partner (alongside with Google, IBM, and
> others) it certainly looks like CLDR has notable momentum and should not be
> ignored.
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> 1)
> http://unicode-inc.blogspot.com/2014/05/cldr-v26-open-for-data-submission.html

Yes, we should not ignore CLDR. But there are also national initiatives
that work directly with ISO on their national conventions, where they do not work
directly with CLDR. CLDR is an American initiative and is very much
dominated by US companies, as you also indicate.

Best regards
keld