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Re: [egmont@suselinux.hu] libc/2780: Euro


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


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