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Re: IBM and glibc locales


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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Mark S. Brown                                             bmark@us.ibm.com
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