From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <libc-locales-return-3090-listarch-libc-locales=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 597 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2014 21:08:55 -0000
Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <libc-locales.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:libc-locales-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Post: <mailto:libc-locales@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:libc-locales-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faqs>
Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org
Received: (qmail 31640 invoked by uid 55); 23 Jun 2014 21:07:34 -0000
From: "keld at keldix dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:08:00 -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: keld at keldix 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: <bug-14641-716-Z6FR6jFbt0@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
In-Reply-To: <bug-14641-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
References: <bug-14641-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
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/msg00203.txt.bz2

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

--- Comment #27 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:02:24PM +0000, keld at keldix dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
> 
> --- Comment #25 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:44:34AM +0000, fweimer at redhat dot com wrote:
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
> > 
> > --- Comment #24 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
> > (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.
> 
> Then you can make them the same (Ms).

One could actually introduce a new keyword for women unmarried+married.
This is a convention found in many cultures.

Best regards
keld

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.