In my opinion this is a bug in glibc. This does not allow a user to define their own locale nor define a historic locale with the previous currency symbols.
We should leave the tests as they are until we get a ruling back from POSIX on this issue. regards Andrew On Mar 2, 1:55pm in "Re: 'DEM ', 'FRF ' n", Matt Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:46:28AM +0000, Andrew Josey wrote: > > Is there a problem with localedef that prevents a user defining > > their own currency symbol? > > Yes, only ISO-4217 currency symbols are allowed in glibc localedef. > As of 2002/02/28 the old symbols have been removed from glibc's > iso-4217.def file. > > Cheers, > > Matt >-- End of excerpt from Matt Wilson
