locale en_EN vs. en_GB/en_US

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Fri Sep 29 16:16:08 UTC 2006


Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:12:40PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Does the locale en_EN exist?
> 
> No.
> 
>> $ python -c 'import locale; print locale.normalize("english");'
>> en_EN.ISO8859-1
> 
> Sounds like a Xorg bug to me.  Of course asking for english locale
> is wrong too, there isn't a clear answer what should that be, there are
> many countries where english is natively spoken, but certainly it shouldn't
> give an inexistent locale.

Then this should be fixed in python...

$ fgrep -r en_EN /usr/lib/python2.4/
/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py:        'english':                       'en_EN.ISO8859-1',
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