Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Bruno Haible wrote on 2000-07-29 02:43 UTC:
> > > > The distinction between de.UTF-8 and de.UTF-8@euro, however, does not
> > > > make sense. Maybe these two are identical?
> >
> > The docs say that the two differ only in the currency symbol and monetary
> > formatting conventions. See
> >
>http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.651.1/SOLUNICOSUPPT/@Ab2PageView/627?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1
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> Ah, that makes sense. But then, I have never seen a single Unix program
> that makes use of these monetary formatting aspects of the locale
> anyway.
>
Wouldn't it anyway have to be an ISO-8859-15 charset, or do they use
EUR as the Euro symbol?
The monetary formatting aspects are indeed pretty useless, mostly
because it is a far too common requirement to support more than one
currency.
-hpa
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