IBM and glibc locales
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Wed Feb 7 13:08:00 GMT 2001
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
ã 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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