Re: [Bug localedata/23857] Esperanto has no country

[Roumen Petrov <bugtrack@roumenpetrov.info>]

carmenbianca at fedoraproject dot org wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23857
>
> --- Comment #2 from Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca at fedoraproject dot org> ---
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
>> I'm not really convinced this is a glibc bug.
>>
>> Wouldn't it make sense to fix applications bugs instead?
> I agree that it isn't, and I agree that it would make sense to fix application
> bugs. The problem is that those application bugs happen because glibc presents
> a special case, and one could undo all these application bugs simultaneously by
> making sure that the special case isn't special anymore.
>
> Even something so simple as my proposed solution 2 would get rid of a lot of
> bugs in programs that expect all locales to look like lang_COUNTRY.

I cannot see any reason libc to implement work-around to broken programs.

According to "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition" 
locale may have form /language/*[*/_territory/*][*/.codeset/*] , *i.e. 
only language is required .

[SNIP]
Regards,
Roumen Petrov