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I am wanting to set up a new locale for "Indonesian English" (en_ID) for Linux systems.

While English is not widely spoken in Indonesia, it is still used widely in business and the professions.

I have made a new locale file using en_SG as a template, and then made several adjustments to the setup so that it conforms to Indonesian standards. I use this locale for a Linux desktop distro that I support, and it works fine.

What I wish to ask is, how can I establish this en_ID locale as a standard? What should I do to to publish it, and where should I publish it? How do I open it up for scrutiny and suggestions for improvement?

Sparhawk
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Gary Dean
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    It would be `en_ID`, not `id_EN`. Locales are included with your libc, generally, so you'd want to get in touch with (probably) the glibc maintainers. You can see more about that [on their wiki](https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales). I'm not sure this question is really suitable on this site, though. – Michael Homer Sep 05 '15 at 09:14
  • yes, should be en_ID. fixed. thanks for the direction. ok, i shall look at glibc wiki. – Gary Dean Sep 05 '15 at 09:16

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The Unicode Locale Data Repository is where you would submit your proposal; but I have serious doubts that they would accept it, especially given that they somewhat recently adopted en_150 for organizations and systems operating in English in geographies where English is not the standard default language.

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  • Kudos for this answer would properly belong to @snakeroot, who [answered a question of mine](http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/158645/19240) with this information. – tripleee Oct 01 '15 at 07:11