[Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

--- Comment #9 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> ---
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:57:48PM +0000, keld at keldix dot com wrote:
> The intended use is then to switch to the locale of the address in question,
> for eg formatting of an address for a postal letter. 

This is not the way locales are supposed to be used. You don't just
keep switching them around at runtime. In your specific example of
formatting a letter, it's wrong, because you want the address
formatted according to the cultural conventions of the place in which
it's being sent, but the name written the way the recipient's name is
supposed to be written.

> To find the correct locale for a given address is not straightforward.
> You would often have a country associated with the address and then you could
> find a locale related to that country. 

But that has nothing to do with how the name should be formatted, only
with how the address should be formatted. Also, depending on your
locale, the matter of formatting an address can depend on the
conventions of the recipient's country or the sender's. In any case
this logic is all way outside the scope of libc locale.

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