[Bug localedata/18408] New: Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

            Bug ID: 18408
           Summary: Provide software utility to permit user created custom
                    locales
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

A command line utility to permit user creation of and modification to valid
customised LOCALEs together with their proper installation and removal should
be provided with glibc.  The existing localedef utility is undocumented and
minimally useful for the installation of customised locales.  No useful editing
tool for locale definitions is provided at all.


See bugs: #9842 #12731 #16668

Editorial comment:

This whole situation with LOCALEs appears to me rather bizarre.  Surely the
date and time format an individual or group desire to employ on their own
computer systems should be their choice to make and not arbitrarily restrained
by the simple lack of suitable tools to do so.  Why is customising system
environmental information display made so difficult for end users to do for
themselves?

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