From owner-freebsd-i18n Wed Jan 16 10:44: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6F37B419 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:44:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.51]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0GIhxb21126 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:44:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0GIi2D14775 for i18n@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:44:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jose) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:44:02 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Euro currency symbols Message-ID: <20020116194402.I226@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20020116202609.A98290@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020116202609.A98290@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:26:09PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:26:09PM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > I am thinking about making European locales aware of Euro currency. > > There're two possible options: > > 1) Add *_EU locales which should be identical to original except that > they'll utilize "EUR" as International Currency Symbol and "Eu" as > National Currency Symbol. For example German Euro Locale should look > like "de_EU.ISO8859-15". But I not sure about compability of these locale > names with existing applications (like XFree, etc) > > 2) Fix existing locales of countries which switched from using national > currencies to EURO. > > Ideas, Comments ? I think that the best option is the second one. The old currencies of the countries in the Eurozone are gone (strictly speaking, they'll be gone on next March, 1st). -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message