Re: no more ADP,ATS,BEF,DEM,ESP,FIM,FRF,GRD,IEP,ITL,LUF,NLG,PTE

[Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 12:52  PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> Mark Brown <bmark@us.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> The problem with this is that now users cannot process work
>>> from previous years, where they need to work with the older
>>> currencies.
>>
>> No reliable implementation would use the locale information.  At least
>> not before the new locale API is introduced which allows using locales
>> in a way it makes sense.

 From the Austin Group discussion on this topic:
Andrew Josey, Chair:
> Now with ISO 4217:2001 in hand, this includes three tables,
> table A-1 is the Currency and funds code list, table A-2 is
> for Funds code registered with a maintenance agency, and
> table A-3 lists codes for historic demoninations of currencies,
>
> Table A-1 contains the european countries who have adopted
> the Euro, together with the Euro and their other pre-Euro currency
> and a note pointing to a timetable when the currency will be withdrawn.
> This is not a withdrawal of the currency symbol in the ISO standard.
> I would anticipate that a future revision of 4217 will
> migrate the DEM, FRF etc to Table A-3.
>
> Thus my reading is  that implementations that are disallowing
> currency symbols now obsoleted by the Euro are doing so
> in error, and that implementations that allow  them are
> following 4217 as required, even if they are listed in Table A-3.
>
> We should update the reference to 4217:2001 in TC1.

I *really* think it is a Bad Idea to remove these symbols.


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