Re: Adding an en_DE locale

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 7/3/24 12:20 PM, Thomas Näveke wrote:
> I was wondering if I was welcome to submit a patch for an "en_DE"
> locale, i.e. a locale that uses English language but German units,
> dates, etc. It would be useful for English speakers working in
> Germany or with Germans, as well as for Germans who prefer the
> display language to be English while retaining their date format and
> units. There is precedence for such a locale, as it exists on Windows
> (Checked on Win10). It is also defined in the Unicode CLDR
> (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/en_DE.xml).
> A similar locale exists for Danish with en_DK. My idea is to copy the
> de_DE locale and adjust the following fields with the entries from
> en_US:

Thomas,

Yes, if Windows 10 and Unicode CLDR have such locales, then I think we should consider
that they are useful and in use by users.

Rather than literal copies of en_US, you can try to use 'copy "en_US"' within the
relevant LC_* blocks to reference the data from en_US.

Please have a look at the contribution checklist here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist

Thank you!

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.