17:01
<dminor>
Can we consider a normative change to get stop exposing islamic-rgsa, given it's not implementable? I'd say that islamic sounds pretty questionable without providing an API to specify the location at which the observation is being made.
17:09
<sffc>
Can we consider a normative change to get stop exposing islamic-rgsa, given it's not implementable? I'd say that islamic sounds pretty questionable without providing an API to specify the location at which the observation is being made.
Well, looking at the list of calendar preferences, I don't see a region that prefers islamic ahead of at least one other non-gregorian calendar, so maybe this is something that could be proposed
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/1be37933f617c6eb312675c04244a17f3c28906b/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L4867
17:12
<sffc>
Same with `islamic-rgsa`
17:12
<sffc>
Actually also `islamic-tbla`
17:13
<dminor>
Interesting, thank you for having a look.
17:14
<sffc>
It looks like in regions that use a Hijri calendar, their preferred one is either Umm-al-qura, Civil, or Persian (solar Hijri)
17:16
<sffc>
Only possible exception is in Egypt and Israel which have "Coptic" and "Hebrew" ahead of Hijri, but have "Islamic" as their first choice Hijri
17:18
<sffc>
It's possible that if PS were listed separately from IL, it would have `islamic` as the first choice
17:20
<sffc>
So we might want to be careful here to avoid putting SA's calendar in 402 but not PS's calendar if that hypothesis is true
17:23
<dminor>
But is the islamic calendar really well defined without specifying an observation location?
17:24
<dminor>
Would PS want Cairo, for instance?
17:26
<sffc>
Cairo might not be a bad choice since it is geographically near Jerusalem, certainly closer than other reasonable choices like Mecca or Baghdad or something. But my sense is that this needs more research
17:29
<dminor>
I would agree with that assessment