English-Europe locale missing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GLibC |
Confirmed
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Medium
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello. I'm not reporting a 'bug', perhaps a missing feature.
I try to explain it. I would like to use my system with Italian locale and the English language, but it seems not considered. Usually, I choose English for language and Ireland for Time/Date/Currency and it works; but I'm wondering why it isn't contemplated the use of the English language for Italian users.
At least, why don't we insert English-Europe locale settings like in Windows systems?
Sorry for bothering and I hope that I explained well what I mean.
Thanks in advance for the time on it. Cheers.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: locales 2.27-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-66-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 29 10:18:17 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-24 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
affects: | glibc (Ubuntu) → language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Changed in glibc: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Following the previous discussion on the alpha mailing list [1] I suggest to introduce en_EU locale. It should be useful for the people who live in non-English speaking European countries but want to use the English user interface having their local settings for other things like metric system, paper size, etc. So far workaround solutions have been used like en_SE, en_DK, en_NL, also used in other countries. The en_EU locale would mean a generic European locale without favoring one or few countries. ISO currently marks EU country code as exceptionally reserved for European Union [2] which is kinda good but my initial idea was that EU may mean both European Union and whole Europe (including also non-EU countries). The yesexpr and noexpr entries should include the Y/N answers for as many languages as possible.
The idea is not to drop en_DK immediately although these locales can use "copy en_EU" if it makes sense.
[1] https:/ /sourceware. org/ml/ libc-alpha/ 2017-08/ msg00308. html /www.iso. org/obp/ ui/
[2] https:/