-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 August 2004 21:24, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On ÎÎÏ 16 ÎÏÎ 2004 14:47, Christian Perrier wrote: > > 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"?
AFAICT, because in locales [EMAIL PROTECTED] points to ISO-8859-15 (as can be seen with dpkg-reconfigure locales), the preferred locale would be _with_ the @euro sign and nl_NL would be for backward compatibility. The only problem is that I've not yet found/seen/heard anywhere what the function is of the pointer in locales to a specific charset (i.e. where this is actually used and what goes wrong if you point to the wrong charset). There was a discussion about this back in june (see thread for [1]), but there was no conclusion reached. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01818.html > > 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. bubulle seems to feel that there's no real difference and that the locales without @euro are good enough, but I/m not yet convinced. However, I know very little about locales :-/ > 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. We are agreed that the locale definitions themselves are identical; it's just the charset pointer that's different. I honestly don't know what the best option is. I'd very much like to hear form somebody who knows how the charset pointer in locales is used. I would guess it's not there for nothing. Cheers, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIRNegm/Kwh6ICoQRAulNAJ44dKYDCX9hmMAdAFmop2HaeHK/MwCfTMR5 J6sBFFy1hAtHROyXdciyFaY= =aMML -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
