Re: [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt

[Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:44:34AM +0000, fweimer at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
> 
> --- Comment #24 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
> (In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #21)
> > I think all of these examples can be covered with the existing LC_NAME spec.
> > And they were all known at the time of specification.
> 
> I think the discrimination of married vs unmarried women in name formatting is
> now considered obsolete and perhaps even slightly offensive.

Then you can make them the same (Ms).

> In any case, proper name formatting is not something related very strongly to
> culture anymore, but to individual persons and the relationships among them. 
> Locales are more or less country-based, so they are a poor way to select name
> formatting rules.

The locales are culturally oriented. I cannot speak for every culture, but 
proper name formatting still seems relevant in many cultures.
What we have is not perfect, but it can be used to provide more culturally 
acceptable results. But I think there is room for improvement, 
I invite such suggestions for improvement. Do you have any suggestions?

> Even telephone number formatting isn't as straightforward as it may seem.  In
> Germany, there are three major ways of formatting phone numbers, and it seems
> that de_DE.UTF-8 uses neither of them (it's difficult to tell because the
> formatting codes are undocumented).

The idea was at least to get rid of the USA way, which is not culturally acceptable
in many countries. Then a number of ways would be kind of OK - in my country
there are also some common examples, and then there is an official recommendation.

Best regards
keld