Bug#142072: acknowledged by developer (Re: libc6: pre Euro currencies obseleted too soon)
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:29:34PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
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> > It doesn't fail to install, it fails to install *properly* - ie it is
> > unable to setup the dummy locale information correctly (localedef
> > rejects some of the locale data) and as a result some of the tests
> > fail during the test suite execution.
>
> It's ridiculous that the system provides only obsolete currency
> symbols only because of conforming to the standard, even the real
> world uses/requires the new currency symbols.
Of course these currencies are obsolete, but applications may want
to define pre-Euro locales for whatever reason.
When UTF-8 becomes the standard, will current legacy encodings be
dropped because they are obsolete? I hope they won't.
BTW I read your postings to libc-alpha in September about LC_MONETARY
bugs, have your patches been applied into 2.3.2?
es_EC: ECS -> USD
ar_SD: SDP -> SDD
sr_YU: YUN -> YUM
If not, could you please perform such changes in Debian glibc?
Denis
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