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Re: [egmont@suselinux.hu] libc/2780: Euro
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:30:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: [egmont@suselinux.hu] libc/2780: Euro
- References: <hoell1yv9g.fsf@gee.suse.de> <m3666c2146.fsf@myware.mynet>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:39:37AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
> > we got the appended bug report. With the introduction of Euro, we
> > could remove the @euro locales and merge everything together - or is
> > there a reason to keep the current state?
>
> Of course there is a reason to keep it as is: the charset would have
> to change. Even the 8859-1 -> 8859-15 change is definitely
> introducing problem. The change from 8859-2 to 8859-16 is a
> catastrophy since entire languages would not be supported anymore.
>
> Until/unless UTF-8 is the default charset the user must select the
> @euro locale.
Cannot be the non-@euro locales at least changed so that they use
int_curr_symbol "<U0045><U0055><U0052><U0020>"
currency_symbol "<U0045><U0055><U0052>"
? I mean better to use EUR than DM, F, Pts or whatever other non-existant
currency symbol.
Jakub