Re: English locale for Europe – en_150

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 7/6/20 7:38 PM, Eidur Eidsson via Libc-locales wrote:
> Hello to you all and thank you for your efforts
> 
> I have been wondering whether it would be feasible to include the
> locale "en_150" in glibc. This is a standard CLDR/ICU-defined locale
> (not a personal invention) that has been mentioned here before:
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-locales/2016-q2/msg00245.html
> .
> 
> I have prepared the following prototype by visually inspecting the
> ICU demonstration at
> https://icu4c-demos-7hxm2n5zgq-uc.a.run.app/icu-bin/locexp . Of
> course it would be better to automatically derive the locale from the
> library itself, but this shows what it could look like. The only
> immediate problem I can see is the use of "XXX" as a currency code.
> Perhaps "EUR" could be used instead (and "@euro" appended to the
> name) although this is strictly not an EU locale.

Thanks for submitting this work. We are currently in the freeze period
for glibc 2.32 which will release on August 1st, and so many developers
are busy with the release.

Is it OK to wait until after August 1st to resume this discussion and
review the changes for glibc 2.33?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.