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Re: Why <U0025> instead of % in locales?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:37:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: Why <U0025> instead of % in locales?
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <E1913pq-0002tR-00@saruman.uio.no>
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Is it OK for me to convert the Norwegian Bokmål locale to use ASCII in
> the date format strings (these are horribly broken, and it will be
> easier for me to edit them in ASCII)?
The <U....> notation is used for portability and charset independence.
It's used everywhere and that has to remain this way. You can write
text normally and then run a simple shell script to convert them to the
correct notation.
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