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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:05:53 +0200
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>
To:        =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: call for review: LC_{NUMERIC,MONETARY} support for libc
Message-ID:  <20010125130553.A60383@ark.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010124024825.A29687@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:48:25AM %2B0300
References:  <20010122171811.A65663@phantom.cris.net> <20010124024825.A29687@nagual.pp.ru>

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hi,

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:48:25AM +0300, Андрей Чернов wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 17:18:11 +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> > I have wrote support for libc's locale for two additional locale
> > categories: LC_NUMERIC and LC_MONETARY. (LC_MESSAGES is not yet
> > finished) in order to make FreeBSD's locale support more complete.
> 
> Looks good (but I not actually test it).
> 
> 1) What happens in your variant when some monetary/numeric locale data is
> missing? Currently we don't have all locales monetary/numeric ready, so
> LC_ALL may fails, breaking compatibility.

In case of missing LC_MONETARY or LC_NUMERIC for some locales -- localeconv()
just will be filled with default (C locale) values.

> 2) About Russian monetary: I think thousand/decimal must be the same as
> for digits - there is no difference between those types of digits. And I
> think that Russian "rub." is better then "rub", point here indicates
> abbreviation.

I have used information from locale definitions taken from 
ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection. As I could understand it's maintained
and was used as source for glibc's locale definitions.

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