[Bug localedata/22473] Suggestion: Introduce en_EU locale

[digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22473

--- Comment #3 from Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com> ---
(In reply to Egmont Koblinger from comment #2)
> Some aspects sound quite problematic to me.
> 
> What should be the decimal separator,

This is English so a comma "," most probably.

> the first day of the week,

I'd like to review some European locales but at the moment I lean into Monday
as some ISO standard says.

> the currency etc.

Euro seems to be the most widely used currency in Europe.

> (let alone a few less important ones e.g. phone prefix, postal
> format)?

They should be left empty, probably. We had lots of trouble with some of these
fields already, also including the ISBN code prefix. It turns out that some
countries have multiple ISBN codes and multiple int_select prefixes. This has
led us to questions whether any application actually uses these data.

> To second Andreas's point, what are the desired use cases to which setting
> separate LC_whatever variables isn't sufficient currently?

My guess is that users are not aware of the possibility to select separate LC_
variables or maybe the GUI support is insufficient.

> Would an en_EU
> then be definitely sufficient for all these kinds of requests?

For some maybe yes, for some this would be just the best they can achieve.
Occasionally there are requests to add en_XX locale because there are people
around Europe who want to use English even if this is neither their native
language nor the language of their countries. Examples:

Bug 14085
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/208548
http://rhea-ayase.eu/articles/2017-08/Upgrade-to-Fedora26

> Wouldn't
> something else, e.g. improving the way users could generate their own
> locales (tools, docs) a better solution?

Maybe improving GUI setups. But I'm not sure if this is possible The GUI setups
tend to be simplified nowadays. I suspect their answer would be "no, we want
the users to choose just a language and a country, not a series of geeky things
like a paper format, date/time format, postal code format etc."

> If en_EU is added then shouldn't there be a fr_EU, de_EU etc., for ... for
> which languages exactly?

If only there are people who choose French (German) language for their
computers because this is their favorite foreign language and they are not
related with any French (German) speaking country... To be more precise: it
should be a reasonably large group of people, we should not add a locale for
just one or few persons. Honestly, I'm not aware of such people. But if there
are any I guess that fr_FR (de_DE) would be a sufficient choice for them.

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