[i18n-discuss] EOF of @euro locales [PSARC/2009/342 FastTracktimeout 06/11/2009]

[Roland Mainz]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:36:14PM -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> > Indeed, I agree. But in my opinion there is no need for a UK at euro locale.
> > For example, if country X has trade relations with India then should we
> > introduce a locale for this country with support for the Indian currency?
> >
> > In other words, this is a real problem that has to be resolved accordingly.
> 
> It's easiest to resolve by EOFing all non-Unicode locales.  But that's
> not necessarily a practical solution.

IMHO it would be very "unwise". Solaris would simply "disappear" from
markets where non-UTF-8 multibyte characters are either required by law
or still have widespread coporate use (e.g. "zh_CN.GB18030", "ja_JP.PCK"
and some others fall into this category (and Sun has invested a lot to
get these locales implemented&&certified)).

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Bye,
Roland

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