On Mar 5, 7:04am in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Andrew Josey wrote: > On Mar 4, 2:27pm in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Matt Wilson wrote: > > The only place that the iso-4217 table is used is in localedef. > > Applications will still be handling monetary symbols as they always > > have, it has nothing to do with a locale. The locale data as shipped > > should reflect Real Life as closely as possible at the time of > > shipping, and provided as updates (patches) as time goes on, IMHO. > >
I obtained a copy of ISO 4217:2001. This includes three tables, table A-1 is the Currency and funds code list, table A-2 is for Funds code registered with a maintenance agency, and table A-3 lists codes for historic demoninations of currencies, Table A-1 contains the european countries who have adopted the Euro, together with the Euro and their other pre-Euro currency and a note pointing to a timetable when the currency will be withdrawn. This is not a withdrawal of the currency symbol in the ISO standard. I would anticipate that a future revision of 4217 will migrate the DEM, FRF etc to Table A-3. Implementations that are disallowing currency symbols now obsoleted by the Euro are doing so in error . The DEM and FRF symbols are listed in 4217:2001. We'll get the reference to 4217 corrected in POSIX 1003.1-2001 TC1. The reason it was the previous version was that we finalized the POSIX 1003.1-2001 text prior to 4217:2001 being approved. regards Andrew
