Hi Eike, Today at 18:39, Eike Rathke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 14:27:03 +0100, Tomislav Randjic wrote: > >> > I will add EUR to the used currencies for *_CS, just that it opens the >> > question which would be the default. CLDR lists EUR as default. Is that >> > correct? Nope, CSD is correct, read below for some elaboration. >> For now, default for sr_CS should be CSD, and EUR should be there also >> to overcome current situation with Euro in Montenegro. > > Please allow me one question: is that a voice from Serbia, or a voice > from Montenegro? You can count it as voice from "people": at least 90% of population of Serbia and Montenegro lives in Serbia-proper (not counting Kosovo in, it's 8 million vs 0.8 million [and note that it's probably more than 8 million, and less than 0.8 million, so I am not being gentle on Serbia, but rather vice versa]). Generally, it's politically a very sensitive question, and you avoid most of the fuss by setting CSD as default currency (there's more: Kosovo with 1.2+M is nowadays probably using EUR as well, even if it's part of Serbia [or isn't, I am not going into political discussion here]). Note that also some day names would be spelled out differently in Montenegro (eg. for Wednesday: "сриједа" instead of "среда", or in Latin transcription "srijeda" instead of "sreda"), so generally, sr_CS is a locale more suitable for Serbia part of the union. That's why I designed a [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale for GNU libc (which is usable in both Montenegro and Bosnia [in "Serbian" areas]), basically for Jekavian dialect as used in Balkans, yet it never garnered enough interest (the number of people that might use it is really small). Note that each dialect is as much "Serbian" as the other, so if we bring this into discussion, we'll never achieve anything: the "voice from Serbia" is going to be more useful to a MAJORITY of people, and that should be the only criteria. Cheers, Danilo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
