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Locale setting is incomplete (international settings) #10976

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What problem are you trying to solve?

What is the issue with the HTML Standard?

The assumption in HTML is that language; unit of measure; decimal number representation; date/time format representation can be covered by one setting. This is a false narrative. One can use the French language in the USA and still want to use imperial units. One can use US English in the US and can have good reasons to use the ISO 8601 date format for representation.
Better would be if there would be separate settings for language; date_format; decimal_format; and unit_of_measure_format.
lang=...
date_format=...
dec_format=...
uom_format=...

What solutions exist today?

Coding around it.

How would you solve it?

Add seperate settings for date_format, dec_format, uom_format next to language.
lang=...
date_format=...
dec_format=...
uom_format=...

Anything else?

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