Re: CLDR import for src/share/*def definitions

Hi,

* J. Vicente Carrasco -Bixen-  <[email protected]>[090706 20:42]:
> Wolfgang Zenker(e)k dio:
>> * Edwin Groothuis <[email protected]> [090702 00:37]:
>>> I have been playing with the CLDR database to see if I can get the
>>> monetary, time, messages and numerical definitions right. The CLDR
>>> is in UTF-8, I use iconv to translate to other charactersets.

>>> So far most of it is fine, except (subset of issues):

>>>- A couple of languages are not known (es_FR, es_IT)

>> what do you mean by "not known"? Both locales specify a spanish language
>> locale, one for use in  France and one in Italy. There might even be no
>> different language contructs from es_ES, just different ways to format
>> dates ore something like that.

> Maybe I'm missing something, but as a Spanish native speaker I can't 
> understand why we (the Spanish-speaking community) could need locales as 
> es_FR or es_IT or even why would be necessary for the French and Italian 
> speaking world. Is something like en_ES, no_IT or de_RU. Why the heck is 
> that? ;-)

as I understand it, that would be locales for use by spanish speaking
communities living in France and Italy, respectively. So someone who
uses one of these locales gets e.g. system messages in spanish but
dates formatted according to the customs in France or something like
that.

Wolfgang
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