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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: KDE3 and Euro
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-07-19 21:37:05
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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:37, Federico Cozzi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this may be off-topic. If so, please tell me the proper mailing list.

Sounds like qt-bugs@trolltech.com might be the right address for this ;)

> First question: does nl_langinfo get executed on Linux Glibc 2.2? I.e., is
> _XOPEN_UNIX defined? I compiled a small program with nl_langinfo and
> locale "it_IT" (not @euro) and it correctly answers ISO-8859-15. So I
> guess that piece of code does NOT get executed in my version of Qt...

/usr/include/unistd.h:#define _XOPEN_UNIX       1
(unconditionnally defined).
This code _is_ executed, I'd say.

> static const char * const iso8859_15locales[] = {
>     "fr", "fi", "french", "finnish", "et", "et_EE", 0 };
> WHY "fr" and "fi" are in ISO-8859-15 and "it" ("es", etc...) not??
> I think it depends on the fact that ISO-8559-15 contains extra character
> for French, etc.., but it also contains Euro support for Euroland
> countries!!!!

That's what I would suggest mailing qt-bugs about.

> Let's default to ISO-8859-15!
I think this would bring much trouble... (much other code defaults to 8859-1,
including QString(char *) etc.)

> Is there any country which uses ISO 8859-1 and not ISO-8859-15?
USA? Any non-euro European country (e.g. GB) ?
Hmm, although, even them might want to be able to display a Euro symbol ;-)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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