The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

The evolving Story of Locale Support, part 5 (...until the decision was made to not refuse to add it)

Sorting it all Out — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:02:20 GMT

Previous blogs from this series:

part 0 (The introduction)

part 1 (Some people don't want to

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

Michael S. Kaplan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:31:10 GMT

Not making fun of anybody, just pointing out emotional flaws in an attempt at a technical justification for an issue that serious repercussions.

The pun is perhaps bad, but most are (as are most of my blog titles!).

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

Andy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:25:10 GMT

Not very nice to make fun of a suppressed and persecuted people. Bad pun? Adding insult to injury, more like.

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

Michael S. Kaplan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:21:55 GMT

That would not be a good idea for the sake of people who do live in a region (it is also impossible for invariant and inflammatory for US).

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

Random832 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:05:47 GMT

What about just adding a locale for some generic country (US? Invariant Country?) so they can at least get the language?

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:26:09 GMT

Hey John,

Of course this kind of underscores the problem with simply adding CLDR support, doesn't it? :-)

re: The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

John Cowan — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:46:27 GMT

FWIW, CLDR (the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository) currently supports the following locales: generic ku-IR, ku-IQ, ku-SY, and ku-TR, plus script-specific ku-Arab-IR, ku-Arab-IQ, ku-Arab-SY, and ku-Latn-TR. Of course, if people added more data they could get more locales.

Sigh.