On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:45:29PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
[...]
> > > > Of course these currencies are obsolete, but applications may want
> > > > to define pre-Euro locales for whatever reason.
> > > > When UTF-8 becomes the standard, will current legacy encodings be
> > > > dropped because they are obsolete?  I hope they won't.
> > > 
> > > So please submit the report to the appropriate standard group to show
> > > the criteria of the int_curr_symbol with the obsolete currency symbol.
> > 
> > I do not understand, sorry.
> > Q2.3 in http://www.linuxbase.org/test/lsb-runtime-test-faq.html
> > tells that obsolete currencies must be defined.
> 
> So LSB is wrong.  Q2.3 is crap.  Reread my post.  Rethink what is the
> locale.  The principle is the real world requirement, not the standard
> conformance.  Blind follower might not be always good result.  Be not
> the standard fundamentalism.

I could understand your point of view if there was a conflict between
standard conformance and real world requirement, but this is not the
case.  We ask you to allow people generating their own locales with
pre-Euro currencies if they need to, nothing more; current locales
are unchanged.

Denis


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