[Bug localedata/22473] New: Suggestion: Introduce en_EU locale

["digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22473

            Bug ID: 22473
           Summary: Suggestion: Introduce en_EU locale
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Following the previous discussion on the alpha mailing list [1] I suggest to
introduce en_EU locale. It should be useful for the people who live in
non-English speaking European countries but want to use the English user
interface having their local settings for other things like metric system,
paper size, etc. So far workaround solutions have been used like en_SE, en_DK,
en_NL, also used in other countries. The en_EU locale would mean a generic
European locale without favoring one or few countries. ISO currently marks EU
country code as exceptionally reserved for European Union [2] which is kinda
good but my initial idea was that EU may mean both European Union and whole
Europe (including also non-EU countries). The yesexpr and noexpr entries should
include the Y/N answers for as many languages as possible.

The idea is not to drop en_DK immediately although these locales can use "copy
en_EU" if it makes sense.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00308.html
[2] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/

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