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[Bug localedata/14943] Artificial languages


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14943

--- Comment #12 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> 2013-03-04 05:43:09 UTC ---
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:17:02AM +0000, bugdal at aerifal dot cx wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14943
> 
> --- Comment #11 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2013-03-04 00:17:02 UTC ---
> > Here's a patch to add an eo_FR locale for using Esperanto in France. I think
> > the French monetary and numeric systems are close enough to what people would
> > expect for an international system so it's also a good general purpose
> > Esperanto locale.
> 
> The radix point is a comma. This is pretty much a show-stopper. In the
> international language of mathematics, radix point is "."

The ISO radix point is comma, in mathemaitcs too. It is only USA and Canada
and some other English-speaking countries that use the period.

We are talking France, and they are using comma. I don't see this as a
show-stopper,
but only natural.

Best regards
keld

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