Matt I checked POSIX and see where the reference to ISO-4217 comes in. The reference in POSIX is to ISO 4217:1995 standard, the symbols you referred to are in the 1995 edition of the standard and thus required.
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
