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		silon42 75 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin co... I wish there was a single letter universal locale with sane values, maybe call it U or E, with: ISO (or RFC....) date time, UTF-8 default (maybe also alternative with ISO8859-1) decimal point in numbers and _ for thousands, metric paper / A4, ..., unicode neutral collation but keeps US-English language

akvadrako 74 days ago [–]

si_LK is close to your requirements, but uses the comma for thousands. I don't think any locale uses underscore.

number: 12,345.67 date: 2025-10-14 09:45:17 paper: A4 (210×297)

https://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/si_LK/

I personally think en_DK is a better compromise.

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