[Bug localedata/2135] New: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

["eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

An esperanto locale is already included with Debian and Mandrake.

According to Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.com) Esperanto has around 2,000,000
second-language speakers in 115 countries.  Compare with other minority
languages, like basque eu_ES (580.000) or Breton br_FR (500000).

I hope the maintainers don't engage in a linguistic discussion about language
categories (that does not belong here) and acknowledge the simple fact that lots
of their users actually patch the system in order to have this locale and would
like to have included.

In certain contexts, not having the locale for esperanto means that no
localization is possible.  Why would you intentionally hinder those projects? 
That has nothing to do with glibc goals, does it?

In case you don't know, the UN system through UNESCO has passed favorable
resolutions on Esperanto.  UNESCO also has called for language diversity in the
Information Society.  I find it hard to believe that you can simply reject the
requests to add the locale.

[1] http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/dec_res.html (look for esperanto)

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           Summary: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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