Re: Why no locale (formats.py) for Australia en_AU or Canada en_CA?

[Russell Keith-Magee]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Justin Hill  wrote:

> https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/django/conf/locale
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to why Australia doesn't have a locale format?
>  en_GB is there, but no en_CA, or en_AU.  My code is in seven countries and
> my forms are working in all of them except Australia and Canada.  It's
> looking for an en_AU format folder that doesn't exists and falling back to
> the defaults.  My users wonder why they can't enter dates in their native
> date format.
>
> Translations are working for things that are different like US: 'zip
> code', CA: 'postal code', AU: 'postcode'
>
> Same would apply to Canada en_CA. But they aren't complaining because
> their date format matches the default -mm-dd.
>
> I'm going to go the route of making my own format file (
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/formatting/#creating-custom-format-files),
> but just seems odd that this would be necessary for such well known
> countries.
>
> Am I doing it wrong?
>
>
Hi Justin,

There's no conspiracy here - it's just a lack of contributors. Which, I
grant, is ironic, given the number of core team members that are Australian
:-)

If you were to provide a patch that contained locale definitions for en_CA
and en_AU, I suspect they'd get merged into trunk fairly quickly. Based on
our current point in the release cycle, that would put the new locales in
the 1.7 release.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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Why no locale (formats.py) for Australia en_AU or Canada en_CA?

[Justin Hill]

https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/django/conf/locale

Does anyone have an idea as to why Australia doesn't have a locale format? 
 en_GB is there, but no en_CA, or en_AU.  My code is in seven countries and 
my forms are working in all of them except Australia and Canada.  It's 
looking for an en_AU format folder that doesn't exists and falling back to 
the defaults.  My users wonder why they can't enter dates in their native 
date format.

Translations are working for things that are different like US: 'zip code', 
CA: 'postal code', AU: 'postcode'

Same would apply to Canada en_CA. But they aren't complaining because their 
date format matches the default -mm-dd.

I'm going to go the route of making my own format file 
(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/formatting/#creating-custom-format-files),
 
but just seems odd that this would be necessary for such well known 
countries.

Am I doing it wrong?

Justin

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