Re: Working on ar_FR locale

[Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org>]

Quoting Mohammed Elzubeir (elzubeir at arabeyes dot org):

> > ar_PS (Palestine) are Arabs but ar_IL (Israel) are Jewish.
> 
> We are not defining identities of countries here. It's locales. There
> are Arabic speaking users in .il and hence the need for ae_IL. Very
> simple.

Precisely.

As of course someone will certainly object that there are probably
Arabic speaking people in nearly all world countries, the ideal
situation would be having 240 ar_* locales...:-)...as well as 240 fr_*
locales and so on....

(240 is the number of entries in ISO_3166)

As this is obvioulsy impossible currently (building a locale requires
being very careful and get information about some tricky stuff),
focusing on what could be called "major" countries is of course
better.

A first target for instance are countries having the given language as
their official language (which means I shouldn't probably focus on
ar_FR but, hey, this is my country after all...:-)))