Re: English locale for Europe ? en_150

[Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:38:20PM +0000, Eidur Eidsson wrote:
> >what is the difference of this locale
> >from the standard iso 30112 i18n locale?
> >also what is the difference in purpose?
> >
> >keld
> 
> Well, the default values in ISO 30112 are not associated with any language, so
> the i18n file cannot be used with locale-gen as far as I've tried.

why not? I used a similar locale to build many national locales, incl da_DK
for my own language - Danish, and about 60 other.

> A regional locale is useful for those who want to quickly apply language-specific
> features while skipping most country-specific features. There are two English
> language CLDR locales for a region rather than a country: en_001 (world) and
> en_150 (Europe). Most importantly, they use a point as a decimal separator,
> which is not the case with i18n. 

The comma is the most widely used decimal separator, only a number of English speeking countries deviate,
actually many countries use a non breaking space, which i find error prone, and I have not seen it 
used in monetary environments - banks etc.

> They also don't display the ISO 8601 date format.

That is in my eyes an error, iso 8601 is a standard in most countries of the world, inc Britain.
if you speak english in a non-natively English country, iso 8601 is the most likely format 
to be well understood. Also with the y2k problem, many international organisations decided to use iso 8601
in the future.

keld