[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47511: Add specific "default settings" for different locales

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#47511: Add specific "default settings" for different locales
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 Reporter:  azaozz       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  I18N         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 > CLDR looks good implementation to me as default values for locale
 settings.

 Yeah, it looks like a really good starting point :)

 The (main) intention here is to have WordPress specific per-locale
 settings that are easy to define and maintain. Mainly things like excerpt
 length,  word-count method, etc. This would include a few of the "more
 general" locale settings too, like default date and time format, decimal
 separator, name display ordering, etc. (as long as they are needed/used in
 the UI).

 The "full" locale settings include a lot of other things, but don't think
 we need most of them. They are targeted at operating system level support,
 we get that "for free" through the web browsers :)

 The next step is to define what these specific WP locale settings should
 include. I've mentioned a few already but am pretty sure I'm missing some.

 Then we can look at the best way to implement these settings. For now it
 seems a (hard-coded) while list in core would be perfect. We can add a
 default (en_US) map (array) with the specific settings, then generate the
 initial per-locale changes/overrides to these default settings (perhaps
 from CLDR), and finally each of the polyglots teams would be able to
 adjust these settings if they wish.

 Alternatively, especially if a white list becomes too big, we can think
 about generating some sort of additional settings file from GlotPress
 (again, can probably use CLDR for that) and distribute it with the main
 wp-admin .po and .mo files. This will be significantly more difficult to
 set-up and maintain. Frankly I don't think it will be needed, at least not
 for now.

 The good part is that once we add some API for the settings, we will be
 able to switch from a white list to ...any other type we need or want.

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