On ÎÎÏ 16 ÎÏÎ 2004 14:47, Christian Perrier wrote: > These two locales are here because one most often uses the > ISO-8859-1 charset and the other one used ISO-8859-15.
Ok, this one i knew so far. > Keeping these locales is indeed only a matter of backward > compatibility...and I'm even not sure this makes sense. Ok, now I'm confused, which one is kept for backwards compatibility, or to put it differently, which should be the default, the "@euro" or the sans-"@euro"? > They may make sense for countries in transition towards the Euro > currency such as those which will maybe switch in the future years > (recent "new" EU countries or maybe, let's dream, Denmark, Sweden > or United Kingdom.....in the latter case, this may happen when I > reach my 100th birthday) > > IMHO, for countries currently using the Euro currency, these @euro > variants do not make sense anymore, even for those which mostly use > the Latin-1/Latin-9 charsets. So, should I remove the @euro extension from the locales? Forgive my persistense, but I can't really understand the use of a @euro or even a new encoding, if noone is using it. Hm, perhaps there should be a transition plan to move everything to UTF-8 :-) Konstantinos
