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
£ 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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