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Re: IBM and glibc locales
- To: James Cownie <jcownie at etnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: IBM and glibc locales
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:07:30 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14QaLr-0UV-00@etnus.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com> writes:
> 2) Many people here already have to deal with Euros, and having a
> locale with the Euro in it seems eminently sensible.
You miss the point behind a Euro locale. It replaces GBP with EUR and
£ with the euro sign. This is not the reality. If you want the euro
available for disaply simply create a locale with the appropriate
charset (ISO-88-59-15, UTF-8, ...).
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