Bug#142072: acknowledged by developer (Re: libc6: pre Euro currencies obseleted too soon)
At Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:46:18 +0200,
Denis Barbier wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:01:45PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> [...]
> > > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
Regards,
-- gotom
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