[Bug localedata/23857] Esperanto has no country

["carmenbianca at fedoraproject dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23857

--- Comment #2 from Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca at fedoraproject dot org> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
> I'm not really convinced this is a glibc bug.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to fix applications bugs instead?

I agree that it isn't, and I agree that it would make sense to fix application
bugs. The problem is that those application bugs happen because glibc presents
a special case, and one could undo all these application bugs simultaneously by
making sure that the special case isn't special anymore.

Even something so simple as my proposed solution 2 would get rid of a lot of
bugs in programs that expect all locales to look like lang_COUNTRY.

> There are other artificial languages which may face the same issue once we
> add it to glibc.  Yiddish currently has a US locale, but isn't this a bit
> odd?

If there's a sizeable population of Yiddish speakers in the US, then that
probably makes sense. It wouldn't make sense for Yiddish speakers outside of
the US, though.  Problem is: Do you want to create a glibc locale for every
possible country where Yiddish is spoken in some capacity? That would
ultimately be the best solution for users, but might cause an annoying
maintenance burden on glibc.

Ideally I'd like to see language and country completely separated from each
other instead of combined in locales, because that would ultimately make the
most sense, but that would be a super big redesign that I am not comfortable
with proposing.  I'm currently limiting my scope to making Esperanto (more)
usable on Fedora Workstation, and I think some of my above suggestions could
significantly improve the status of Esperanto with relatively little effort
(i.e., fixing all application bugs).

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