Bug#160040: Quick fix for sr_YU locale
At Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:04:10 +0200,
era eriksson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:21:39 +0900, GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
> wrote:
> > At Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:36:13 +0200,
> > era eriksson wrote:
> >> It looks like there is a typo in the currency information for the _YU
> >> locale. Attached please find a simple patch; however please note that
> > I already sent this kind of patch to upstream a half of years before
> > (2002-09-09), but I got comments that ar_SD, sr_YU, es_EC, ... is not
> > established its int_curr_symbol name. I would like to know which
> > currency symbol do the people use in those countries...
>
> It's silly to reject a patch which fixes a bug which prevents +any+
> use of these locales, and anyhow, I don't see how political reality
> would be very important in this case, as having obsolete information
> is hardly worse than not having any information at all.
>
> In any event, if localedef uses ISO 4217 as the reference for checking
> the validity of the compiled locale, having the data conform to ISO
> 4217 certainly +seems+ like the right thing to do (and when the Serbs
> etc decide to have ISO 4217 updated with their new currency, it should
> obviously be a simple matter to update +both+ the actual locale data
> files and iso-4217.def so that they remain in agreement).
I know, I think so too.
> For what it's worth, I have submitted patches to the apparent ultimate
> upstream:
>
> * ar_SD - <http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/icu-bugs?findid=2763>
> * sr_YU - <http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/icu-bugs?findid=2764>
That's good :)
Please tell me if your submission is accepted into the upstream.
Regards,
-- gotom
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