LDML data for en_IE

[Rafael Xavier]

>
> Thus the value would come from en.xml, which would be:


Shouldn't it be en_GB.xml, which is its parent locale?

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:26 AM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>
wrote:

>  I'm looking at the LDML data for common/main/en_IE.xml.  In this file, in
> the gregorian section there is only a full date format entry.
>
> As documented somewhat ironically in section 4 of Unicode Technical
> Standard #35 Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML), a lookup for
> dateFormatLength short should follow inheritance. Thus the value would come
> from en.xml, which would be:
>
>  <dateFormatLength type="short">
> 	<dateFormat>        	<pattern>M/d/yy</pattern>
> 	</dateFormat></dateFormatLength>
>
>
> However examining the JSON file of cldr data, main/en-IE/ca-gregorian.js,
> it contains:
>
>  "short": "dd/MM/y"
>
>  I've also had a person who is a native of that country inform me that
> M/d/yy is not correct.
>
> Can someone help me understand why the LDML data implicitly contains (to
> my understanding) an incorrect definition of the short date format for the
> en-IE locale?
>
>
>
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