Re: Adding an en_DE locale

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Carlos O'Donell via Libc-locales:

> 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.

On the other hand, glibc supports on the fly composition of locales, so
you could use LANG=en_US.utf8 with the de_DE.utf8 overrides for the
parts you want from there (or vice versa).  Or you can compile your own
locale using localedef.  Most distributions ship the locale sources, so
that you can compose something quickly using those copy directives.

Thanks,
Florian