[bmacho]

Wrong decimal tho.

Why isn't there an en-EU or en-ISO locale that has:

  - yyyy-mm-dd
  - SI units
  - 1,234.56 number format

[aendruk]

It is possible to define a custom locale with these features, e.g. https://andrew.kvalhe.im/2022-09-09

  $ echo "$LANG"; date
  en_US.UTF-8@aspirational
  2026-07-02T11:17:00-07:00

[brnt]

The European Commission published its own language guide. In terms of English it's only a small deviation from en-GB, but my first thought was indeed: when can I set en-EU?

[reirob]

Do you have a link to this publication?

[bmacho]

https://knowledge-centre-translation-interpretation.ec.europ...

> This style guide is intended primarily for English-language authors and translators, both in-house and freelance, working for the European Commission.

It specifies formats for date, numbers etc.

[sph]

I can tolerate the comma as thousands separator, but I hate the dot as thousands separator. Use a space or ' if you want to be fancy.

I wish we’d rip the bandaid off and invent a new character that makes it unambiguous across the world.

[btschaegg]

Because that comma is a crime against legibility.

[pezezin]

Nowadays the recomended thousands separator by most international standards is a blank space.

And having been raised in the continent, I personally find using commas for thousands disgusting.