Bug#142072: acknowledged by developer (Re: libc6: pre Euro currencies obseleted too soon)
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:45:29PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
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> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > So please submit the report to the appropriate standard group to show
> > > the criteria of the int_curr_symbol with the obsolete currency symbol.
> >
> > I do not understand, sorry.
> > Q2.3 in http://www.linuxbase.org/test/lsb-runtime-test-faq.html
> > tells that obsolete currencies must be defined.
>
> So LSB is wrong. Q2.3 is crap. Reread my post. Rethink what is the
> locale. The principle is the real world requirement, not the standard
> conformance. Blind follower might not be always good result. Be not
> the standard fundamentalism.
I could understand your point of view if there was a conflict between
standard conformance and real world requirement, but this is not the
case. We ask you to allow people generating their own locales with
pre-Euro currencies if they need to, nothing more; current locales
are unchanged.
Denis
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