conf/137870: [locale] en_DK needed

[J.R. Oldroyd]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:23:37 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> wrote:
>
>  
> > I think the locale name en_ISOdate or even en_UK.isodate and
> > en_US.isodate or something along those lines would be more suitable.
> 
> The optional part behind the country is reserved for the font family.
> Latn or Cyrl etc.
> 
> What you are more looking at is a unused language string (like "xx"
> to make it "xx_DK") which has the right definitions in it.
> 
> I don't think that the right place for this non-standard thing is
> in the base system, a port would be a much cleaner solution.
> 
> Edwin
> 

You are right about the part after the period being reserved, although
it seems it's a character set rather than a font family.

The format appears to be:
	xx_YY.charset
		xx = ISO639 2-letter language code
		YY = ISO3166 2-letter country code
		charset = UTF-8, ISO8859-1, CP1131, etc

For years now I have used the name en_ISO.UTF-8 myself for exactly the
purpose that the poster is requesting, without anything apparently
breaking.  While the string "ISO" is obviously not a 2-letter ISO3166
country code, it does not appear to break anything.

I agree that this should be done as a port, rather than added to the
base system.

	-jr