Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:44:02 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Euro currency symbols Message-ID: <20020116194402.I226@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> In-Reply-To: <20020116202609.A98290@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:26:09PM %2B0200 References: <20020116202609.A98290@ark.cris.net>
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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
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