Due to different locales having more natural default values than others, the wish is to be able to have store views inherit values of a different store view rather than the common default store view (Mage_Catalog_Model_Abstract::DEFAULT_STORE_ID) where default values are fetched from.
There is one constant indicating the default store view but a variety of classes write their own wrapper to that constant.
Has anyone ever implemented this behavior and how did you approach it? Does anyone have pointers on how to most elegantly solve this?