Locales in new libc: eeew!

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

 I tried to check the locale of my country and see if I could improve it,
and then I found that locales are all like this:

LC_ADDRESS
postal_fmt    "<U0025><U0066><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0061><U0025><U004E>/
<U0025><U0064><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0062><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0073>/
<U0020><U0025><U0068><U0020><U0025><U0065><U0020><U0025><U0072><U0025>/
<U004E><U0025><U0025><U007A><U0020><U0025><U0054><U0025>/
<U004E><U0025><U0063><U0025><U004E>"
END LC_ADDRESS

 What!! An hexdump? Is someone insane? The SUSv2 standard (Unix98) allows
using the characters themselves... why would we want something like this?