From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13410 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2002 15:03:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13385 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 15:03:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mg03.austin.ibm.com) (192.35.232.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 15:03:54 -0000 Received: from austin.ibm.com (netmail1.austin.ibm.com [9.3.7.138]) by mg03.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17872; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:00:25 -0600 Received: from msbmac.austin.ibm.com (msbmac.austin.ibm.com [9.53.234.132]) by austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA54136; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:03:50 -0600 Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:03:00 -0000 Subject: Re: no more ADP,ATS,BEF,DEM,ESP,FIM,FRF,GRD,IEP,ITL,LUF,NLG,PTE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: Ulrich Drepper , GNU libc hacker To: Jakub Jelinek From: Mark Brown In-Reply-To: <20020228195232.D2204@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> Message-Id: <33808989-304A-11D6-8352-0030657603C6@us.ibm.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 12:52 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> Mark Brown writes: >> >>> The problem with this is that now users cannot process work >>> from previous years, where they need to work with the older >>> currencies. >> >> No reliable implementation would use the locale information. At least >> not before the new locale API is introduced which allows using locales >> in a way it makes sense. From the Austin Group discussion on this topic: Andrew Josey, Chair: > Now with ISO 4217:2001 in hand, 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 and a note pointing to a timetable when the currency will be withdrawn.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. > > Thus my reading is that implementations that are disallowing > currency symbols now obsoleted by the Euro are doing so > in error, and that implementations that allow them are > following 4217 as required, even if they are listed in Table A-3. > > We should update the reference to 4217:2001 in TC1. I *really* think it is a Bad Idea to remove these symbols. --- Mark S. Brown Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Server Group 512.838.3926 fax 512.838.3882 bmark@us.ibm.com