[Bug localedata/14085] en_NL: new locale (English language for the Netherlands)

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14085

--- Comment #15 from Robertino <superherowolverine-sourcewareorg at yahoo dot com> ---
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12624#c3 :
QUOTE
Accepting any such special-interest locale would open a flood.  There is no
reason to have such a locale in glibc.  The localedef utility is standardized
for a reason: locales can be compiled by anyone.

Just create a RPM or whatever which upon installation installs the files and
compiles the locale with localedef.
UNQUOTE

Adding "en_non-en" locales is not flooding.
Let's see what flooding is.

Somehow some people seem to forget that the EU (as we know it now) is a reality
since 1993. There are 24 official languages of the European Union. And 19 EU
member states. There is an internal single market in the EU where by law all
member states have agreed to act as one. Also, EU policies further the free
movement of **people**, goods, services and capital within this internal
market. Yes also people.
Has/Is anyone In The Netherlands working for a company that has Linux desktop
computers in their network and employs English speaking permies or English
speaking freelancers using those Linux computers?
And where more often than not one of the job requirements for native Dutch
speakers is : good (or better) written and spoken English. Because of the mix
of nationalities within the company. We are the USE (United States of Europe)
after all.
Has/Is anyone working for one of the many Japanese companies in The
Netherlands, where speaking and writing English is mandatory?

Has/Is anyone working for a company where Windows sysadmins keep Linux desktops
and laptops off their network and out the door because of locale issues?
Although staff would prefer to use Linux on the dersktop.

Some of the companies in The Netherlands that I worked as a freelance
contractor that had and still have many English speaking freelancers/permies :
ING Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, RABO Bank, MUFG Bank (nee Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
UFJ), Canon Europe BV, Kyocera Mita Europe, Cygnific BV (Air France-KLM's
worldwide support), XS4ALL BV (best ISP ever). They all refuse Linux desktops
for this locale issue.

ING Bank encountered major issues after they decided to build their new call
center software on Linux (server and desktop). As you guess the issues were
about locales on the desktop. Yes, they had to roll their own locales. I'm
still grateful that I did not work on that mope and grope project. That was in
late 2008.

You expect us to keep rinsing and repeating the ING effort almost 11 years
later? Almost 26 years after the beginning of the EU ?
Thanks for adding the Euro-sign though. It shaved 2 seconds off the work to
create a new locale. Hail Windows and Hail MacOS for putting in a genuinine
effort to conquer the desktop. Doh! Oops!

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