[Bug localedata/22476] New: Suggestion: Drop the "@euro" locales

[digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22476

            Bug ID: 22476
           Summary: Suggestion: Drop the "@euro" locales
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

I suggest to drop all @euro locales because they are currently not different
than their non-@euro counterparts. I guess historically it was needed to have
two versions of some locales when euro currency has been introduced but the
previous currencies were still in use. Currently all old currencies have been
dropped completely and replaced by euro even in non-@euro locales.

On the other hand, those @euro locales serve one purpose: the default code page
for ex. de_DE is ISO-8859-1 while for de_DE@euro the default code page is
ISO-8859-15. (Note that most of the current systems use UTF-8 so the old 8-bit
encodings have limited use.) So probably what actually should be done is:

* drop the *@euro source files,
* drop the @euro locales from SUPPORTED,
* add ISO-8859-15 encodings to SUPPORTED (this mostly will mean rename "@euro"
to ".ISO-8859-15"),
* add aliases: *@euro to *.ISO-8859-15 so the systems which refer to the @euro
locales still work and do not need to switch to ISO-8859-15 explicitly.

Note that in ISO-8859-1 locales the "€" symbol is transliterated to "EUR".

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