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

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

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.

(2) Patch looks good.

* You fixed the cut-and-paste errors which were duplicating the es_ES
locale which is what we wanted to avoid.

* The es_MX matches the normative document for Mexico.

* In addition I checked your changes against the suggested changes in
BZ#13147, which is the bug Ulrich claimed fix in November 2011[1]. For
all of the changes you made I verified they match the recommendations
of the submitter (from Red Hat) of BZ#13147 and they do, which gives
me confidence that we are moving in the right direction. We still need
normative references, but we're working on that.

(3) Fixup ChangeLog date and please checkin.

Slightly off-topic...

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.

Cheers,
Carlos.

[1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4b19cd7aef8511714947e658077c85f51c29ef65;hp=98591e582047b308de2ed0621088edad5d3cdf8a