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Re: Propose we allow locales without country codes.


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:52:35AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
> 
> I'm proposing we allow locales without country codes in order 
> to accept international languages without country codes as 
> valid locales e.g. eo.
> 
> The infrastructure in glibc appears to support locales without
> country codes. We don't know what issues might crop up downstream.
> We should just fix downstream as new locales without country codes
> are created.
> 
> Does anyone object to this? Does anyone see any serious problems?

I propose that glibc also accept such locales for languages whose
speakers are dispersed around the world and not likely to have a
locale for the combination of their language and country, and for
languages used by displaced peoples who do not have a country at all.

Rich


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