Re: redhat 8.0 - using locales

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote on 2003-01-10 17:34 UTC:
> > > A few files appear under LC_MESSAGES, but it seems
> > > they dont show up even when LANG=eo.
> > 
> > First, you need to have a locale, maybe eo_ES or so.
> 
> I recommend eo_XX as an unofficial way of not choosing a country.

XX is indeed one of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes reserved for
private use (along with AA, ZZ, QM-QZ, XA-XZ). However, I would have
strongly prefered that locale names do not use a country name at all,
unless it is necessary to distinguish between countries. The only excuse
to do so is usually the currency field, which nobody uses anyway and
which I wished POSIX removed as it is useless in practice.

Markus

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