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Re: IBM and glibc locales
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- Subject: Re: IBM and glibc locales
- From: Markus Kuhn <Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:22:22 +0000
James Cownie wrote on 2001-02-07 19:34 UTC:
> 2) Many people here already have to deal with Euros, and having a
> locale with the Euro in it seems eminently sensible.
In any case, who really cares? There exists *absolutely* *no*
application software that actually uses LC_MONETARY except for test
suites and locale(1). The few software packages that deal with money
specify the currency in a locale-independent way in their own
configuration files. LC_MONETARY is all just abstract committee theory
and all that customers using the Euro all over the world really need is
a character encoding that contains the EURO SIGN.
Do you really use LC_MONETARY locale data or know someone who does?
I'm sure Linux will have moved completely to UTF-8 long before the Brits
(intensively and successfully brainwashed by a highly anti-EMU press
here) or Danes haved agree to a Join-the-EMU referendum.
Customers do need the EURO SIGN, and as Ulrich said, the availability of
UTF-8 and ISO 8859-15 support fully takes care of that already. Both
en_GB.UTF-8 and en_GB.ISO-8859-16 are already used by quite a number of
people today, which makes glibc fully Euro ready for the UK. Customers
who want en_GB@euro most likely haven't understood what they want.
Markus
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Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>