Why <U0025> instead of % in locales?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Apr 3 17:37:00 GMT 2003


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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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