Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' no longer valid in int_curr_symbol
On Mar 5, 7:04am in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Andrew Josey wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2:27pm in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Matt Wilson wrote:
> > The only place that the iso-4217 table is used is in localedef.
> > Applications will still be handling monetary symbols as they always
> > have, it has nothing to do with a locale. The locale data as shipped
> > should reflect Real Life as closely as possible at the time of
> > shipping, and provided as updates (patches) as time goes on, IMHO.
> >
I obtained a copy of ISO 4217:2001.
This includes three tables, table A-1 is the Currency and funds code
list, table A-2 is for Funds code registered with a maintenance agency,
and table A-3 lists codes for historic demoninations of currencies,
Table A-1 contains the european countries who have adopted
the Euro, together with the Euro and their other pre-Euro currency
and a note pointing to a timetable when the currency will be withdrawn.
This is not a withdrawal of the currency symbol in the ISO standard.
I would anticipate that a future revision of 4217 will
migrate the DEM, FRF etc to Table A-3.
Implementations that are disallowing currency symbols now obsoleted
by the Euro are doing so in error . The DEM and FRF symbols
are listed in 4217:2001.
We'll get the reference to 4217 corrected in POSIX 1003.1-2001 TC1.
The reason it was the previous version was that we finalized the
POSIX 1003.1-2001 text prior to 4217:2001 being approved.
regards
Andrew
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