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Re: IBM and glibc locales
- To: Markus Kuhn <Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: IBM and glibc locales
- From: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:18:15 -0600
Markus Kuhn wrote on 08/02/01 2:22 AM:
> Do you really use LC_MONETARY locale data or know someone who does?
Yes. Of course IBM is in quite a few places...
> Customers do need the EURO SIGN, and as Ulrich said, the availability of
> UTF-8 and ISO 8859-15 support fully takes care of that already. Both
> en_GB.UTF-8 and en_GB.ISO-8859-16 are already used by quite a number of
> people today, which makes glibc fully Euro ready for the UK.
This is true.
> Customers
> who want en_GB@euro most likely haven't understood what they want.
A little arrogance here, maybe. Is there a problem with being *ahead*
of the curve, even a little?
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