From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14739 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2014 08:21:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 19715 invoked by uid 48); 23 Jun 2014 07:44:35 -0000 From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:21:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: fweimer at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: REOPENED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2014-q2/txt/msg00195.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641 --- Comment #24 from Florian Weimer --- (In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #21) > I think all of these examples can be covered with the existing LC_NAME spec. > And they were all known at the time of specification. I think the discrimination of married vs unmarried women in name formatting is now considered obsolete and perhaps even slightly offensive. In any case, proper name formatting is not something related very strongly to culture anymore, but to individual persons and the relationships among them. Locales are more or less country-based, so they are a poor way to select name formatting rules. Even telephone number formatting isn't as straightforward as it may seem. In Germany, there are three major ways of formatting phone numbers, and it seems that de_DE.UTF-8 uses neither of them (it's difficult to tell because the formatting codes are undocumented). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.