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Re: Locales in new libc: eeew!



On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:49:49AM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote:
> 
>  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?

This is more appropriate on the libc-alpha list.

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