[Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

--- Comment #24 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #21)
> I think all of these examples can be covered with the existing LC_NAME spec.
> And they were all known at the time of specification.

I think the discrimination of married vs unmarried women in name formatting is
now considered obsolete and perhaps even slightly offensive.

In any case, proper name formatting is not something related very strongly to
culture anymore, but to individual persons and the relationships among them. 
Locales are more or less country-based, so they are a poor way to select name
formatting rules.

Even telephone number formatting isn't as straightforward as it may seem.  In
Germany, there are three major ways of formatting phone numbers, and it seems
that de_DE.UTF-8 uses neither of them (it's difficult to tell because the
formatting codes are undocumented).

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