[Bug localedata/24366] la_VA locale support

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24366

--- Comment #4 from nicolalucasbuescher+bugzilla at gmail dot com ---
Rafal, that's certainly a fair point. My point of reference is that, while it
may or may not be appropriate to compare the feature set of Linux to other OSs,
in both macOS and Windows 10 you are able to set your locale/language to Latin
(lingua latina). In both cases, the setting applies only to the locale used for
applications, and Latin is not provided as a display language (what I would
call a second-class locale). But this enables applications to support Latin as
a language option.

Technically you can also do this in Linux without explicit glibc support, and I
did, but the fact that there is no actual locale file crashes some programs,
Dropbox being one. This fact that apps can actually crash is the reason I filed
a bug.

I'm not deeply familiar with how locales work in Linux, but my thought was that
having an la_VA locale would enable applications to support the language for
spell-checking, which I think would be a very good use-case for the locale,
considering that many many people still work with Latin, even though there are
no native speakers.

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