Re: Glibc locale creation

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 à 21:22 +0200, Luca Ferretti a écrit :
> Il giorno ven, 13/05/2011 alle 20.49 +0200, Claude Paroz ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For those interested in glibc locales, I recently created a small Django
> > application to help visualizing and editing those famous locale files.
> > 
> > http://lh.2xlibre.net
> > 
> > Talk to me if you have to work on a new locale to add.
> 
> Wow, great. Any hope I could abuse of your knowledges in glibc locales
> in order to change current definition for Italian? 
> 
> Time format for IT is now something like HH:MM:SS, but the proper way
> should be HH.MM.SS 
> 
> I never tried to report this upstream or, better, when I checked how to
> report this there was 5 or 6 years old similar issues for other
> locales :|

Yes, for reporting such bugs, you have to present a rock-solid
argumentation, with official resources if possible.
I can understand the maintainers, they don't want to change a setting
just to receive an opposite request two months later.

You can read a similar request for Swedish, where there is apparently no
official position, read the last message :-)
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11630

Claude