Normalized Locales: Is it possible to control the normalization rules?

[AB]

I am referring to URL:

https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/guides/i18n#normalized-locales where the following explanatory text is found:

To reduce the number of required translations, most determined locales are normalized, by narrowing them to their main language codes only, for example, en_US, en_CA, en_AU → en, except for these preserved language codes.

I wonder whether en_AU could be normalized to en_GB rather than to en, since grammar, spelling and terminology in Australian English is much closer to English Great Britain than English Canada or United States. Since en_AU and en_GB are so similar, it makes little sense to preserve both en_GB and en_AU and maintain two distinct translations.

Is it possible to control the normalization such that en_AU might normalize to en_GB?

[robinjayasinghe · Accepted solution]

In CAP (Java) you can suppress normalization of locales by configuration. But, AFAIK, there is no way for a fine-grained normalization configuration as described in your example. Would it be an option, though, to have all "en_" locales normalized?

[AB · Accepted solution]

Thank you robinjayasinghe for your answer.