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Re: [PATCH] [BZ 14510] Fix LC_NUMERIC for various es_* locales

On 09/05/2012 09:42 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
OK. I'll go for <U2009> and we'll all watch for fallout...

(1) You add 14505 to the bugs in NEWS and that's wrong.
14505 needs to be added to NEWS, but I'll do that separately.


(3) Fixup ChangeLog date and please checkin.
Done.


The truth is that I'm skeptical of glibc's current policy about
requiring normative references for changing the locale data. How does
that better serve our users? I'm of the mind that we should be doing
bulk imports from CLDR and directing users to interact with the
Unicode community upstream. At the end of the day when you click on
the "I live here" button or setup the "I'm from here" config option
you should get formatting that is familiar to you and makes your
interaction with the system easier, and that might not be what your
government mandates.
Perhaps. But I can also see the case where this might conflict based on personal experience/preferences. Plus glibc is used by government entities and they're a lot more likely to demand the locale data match the government mandates.

Jeff

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