[Bug localedata/14641] LC_NAME: deprecate locale category

[Keld Simonsen]

if you dont belive in th work we do her then go join cldr - if you are allowed to participate!!
and let us do our work


your remarko on this being a bginning - indicates that you do not grasp the nature of i18n
there are always things to do.

keld


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:05:34AM +0000, vapier at gentoo dot org wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
> 
> --- Comment #39 from Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org> ---
> (In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #38)
> 
> the standard itself already admits defeat:
>    The specification below should be regarded as a starting point for this
> problem.
> 
> i doubt people writing booking systems are relying on the locale data provided
> by glibc.  instead they're using databases they found online or are provided by
> another company.
> 
> i don't think this level of detail is appropriate anymore in any standards body
> or C library.  these processes are glacial at best.  having focused libs that
> are actively developed/updated is the common process nowadays.  the CLDR as an
> example does two full releases a year (with point fixes and betas on top of
> that).  by comparison, ISO 3122 has like one release every 5+ years ?
> 
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