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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>,
	Mike Fabian <mfabian@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Introduce en_EU?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de796e1b-8587-072b-33d2-9588b5486eed@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <208812895.372246.1503005723267@poczta.nazwa.pl>

On 08/17/2017 11:35 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 10.08.2017 14:43 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08/08/2017 09:12 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> With all due respect, I can't see any reason why _DK was chosen
>>> to represent a generic continental European English locale.
>>
>> It predates the EU and the ISO reservation.
>>
>>> If such locale is actually needed, shouldn't we introduce en_EU
>>> instead? _EU can be understood either as Europe or as European
>>> Union, both could be assumed valid.
>>
>> ISO writes this about “EU”:
>>
>> “Refers to European Union and reserved at the request of ISO 4217/MA
>> (March 1998) for ISO 6166, Securities - International securities
>> identification numbering system (ISIN).”
>>
>> (See <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/> under Country codes/Other
>> codes/Exceptionally reserved.)
> 
> Looks good.  If I understand correctly, your opinion about my idea
> is "rather yes".

Yes, I think using EU in locale identifiers makes sense.

Thanks,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-18  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170731063951epcas5p3d3910a93ab4af53aac061b7e5c04b4a6@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2017-07-31  8:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] Fix yesexpr in en_DK locale Akhilesh Kumar
2017-08-02 17:11   ` Mike FABIAN
     [not found]   ` <CGME20170731063951epcas5p3d3910a93ab4af53aac061b7e5c04b4a6@epcms5p5>
2017-08-03  3:40     ` AKHILESH KUMAR
2017-08-03  8:54       ` Mike FABIAN
2017-08-03 10:17         ` Mike FABIAN
2017-08-03 10:24         ` Florian Weimer
2017-08-03 11:47           ` Mike FABIAN
2017-08-08 19:12           ` Introduce en_EU? (was: [PATCH 1/1] Fix yesexpr in en_DK locale) Rafal Luzynski
2017-08-10 12:43             ` Introduce en_EU? Florian Weimer
2017-08-17 21:35               ` Rafal Luzynski
2017-08-18  9:11                 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-11-22  6:38                   ` Rafal Luzynski

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