From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 117134 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2016 16:10:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 117114 invoked by uid 89); 22 Apr 2016 16:10:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:4.84_2, Hx-languages-length:768, H*f:sk:1461298, H*i:sk:1461298 X-HELO: albireo.enyo.de From: Florian Weimer To: Mike Frysinger Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, pander@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] localedata: en_NL: new English in the Netherlands locale [BZ #14085] References: <1461298610-19221-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1461298610-19221-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:16:50 -0400") Message-ID: <87a8klk4jp.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00561.txt.bz2 * Mike Frysinger: > +% English language locale for the Netherlands. > +% Internationally oriented users who are physically located in the Netherlands > +% use software mainly in the English language. Therefore they have their > +% systems usually configured to US English International. However, due to the > +% geographic location, it can be desirable for certain data to be represented > +% according to the local Dutch notation while the rest remains in English. Why is this necessary? Isn't this use case the reason for having separate LC_* environment variables, so that you can mix-and-match locales like this? In other words, glibc doesn't need to provide a pre-cooked locale.