I raised the issue of euro support with the POSIX 1003.1 committee this morning, and we will ensure it gets sorted in TC1.
However, this does not change the fact that making applications obsolete that use historical currency symbols, such as those superseded by the Euro seems naive at best. Also many of the central banks plan to continue to accept the old currencies especially DEM for the foreseeable future -- does glibc want to exclude itself from these markets?:-) regards Andrew On Mar 4, 12:20pm in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Matt Wilson wrote: > POSIX.1-2001 is broken to use ISO-4217:1995. This would make all the > Euro symbols 'XEU '. The de facto standard is 'EUR ' which is > reflected in ISO 4217:2001. > > Cheers, > > Matt >-- End of excerpt from Matt Wilson
