Bruno Haible wrote on 2000-07-27 21:06 UTC:
> The distinction between de.UTF-8 and de.UTF-8@euro, however, does not
> make sense. Maybe these two are identical?

That is indeed rather strange and unexpected.

SunOS 5.7 for example features in /usr/lib/locale/:

C                      es_AR                  it.ISO8859-15
POSIX                  es_BO                  it.ISO8859-15@euro
ar                     es_CL                  it.UTF-8
bg_BG                  es_CO                  it.UTF-8@euro
cz                     es_CR                  lt
da                     es_EC                  lv
da.ISO8859-15          es_GT                  mk_MK
da.ISO8859-15@euro     es_MX                  nl
de                     es_NI                  nl.ISO8859-15
de.ISO8859-15          es_PA                  nl.ISO8859-15@euro
de.ISO8859-15@euro     es_PE                  nl_BE
de.UTF-8               es_PY                  nl_BE.ISO8859-15
de.UTF-8@euro          es_SV                  nl_BE.ISO8859-15@euro
de_AT                  es_UY                  no
de_AT.ISO8859-15       es_VE                  no_NY
de_AT.ISO8859-15@euro  et                     nr
de_CH                  et.ISO8859-15          pl
el                     fi                     pt
el.sun_eu_greek        fi.ISO8859-15          pt.ISO8859-15
el.sun_eu_greek@euro   fi.ISO8859-15@euro     pt.ISO8859-15@euro
en_AU                  fr                     pt_BR
en_CA                  fr.ISO8859-15          ro_RO
en_GB                  fr.ISO8859-15@euro     ru
en_GB.ISO8859-15       fr.UTF-8               ru.koi8-r
en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro  fr.UTF-8@euro          sk_SK
en_IE                  fr_BE                  sl_SI
en_IE.ISO8859-15       fr_BE.ISO8859-15       sq_AL
en_IE.ISO8859-15@euro  fr_BE.ISO8859-15@euro  sr_SP
en_NZ                  fr_CA                  sv
en_US                  fr_CH                  sv.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8            he                     sv.ISO8859-15@euro
es                     he_IL                  sv.UTF-8
es.ISO8859-15          hr_HR                  sv.UTF-8@euro
es.ISO8859-15@euro     hu                     th
es.UTF-8               iso_8859_1             th_TH
es.UTF-8@euro          it                     tr

with

de.UTF-8:
total 1344
drwxr-xr-x   8 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 107 sys      kmem        2560 Mar  9 16:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 LC_COLLATE
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     system        23 Mar  9 16:18 LC_CTYPE -> 
../en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 LC_MESSAGES
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 LC_MONETARY
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 LC_NUMERIC
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 LC_TIME
-r-xr-xr-x   1 sys      kmem      634056 Sep 11  1998 de.UTF-8.so.2
-r-xr-xr-x   1 sys      kmem       29236 Sep 11  1998 methods_de.UTF-8.so.2
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 sparcv9

de.UTF-8@euro:
total 1332
drwxr-xr-x   3 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 107 sys      kmem        2560 Mar  9 16:18 ..
-r-xr-xr-x   1 sys      kmem      634096 Sep 11  1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-r-xr-xr-x   1 sys      kmem       29240 Sep 11  1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drwxr-xr-x   2 sys      kmem         512 Mar  9 16:18 sparcv9


Markus

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