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Re: [Bug localedata/14943] Artificial languages
- From: Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>
- To: bugdal at aerifal dot cx <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 07:42:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Bug localedata/14943] Artificial languages
- References: <bug-14943-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/><bug-14943-716-ZvhTQVEq1E@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:17:02AM +0000, bugdal at aerifal dot cx wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14943
>
> --- Comment #11 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2013-03-04 00:17:02 UTC ---
> > Here's a patch to add an eo_FR locale for using Esperanto in France. I think
> > the French monetary and numeric systems are close enough to what people would
> > expect for an international system so it's also a good general purpose
> > Esperanto locale.
>
> The radix point is a comma. This is pretty much a show-stopper. In the
> international language of mathematics, radix point is "."
The ISO radix point is comma, in mathemaitcs too. It is only USA and Canada
and some other English-speaking countries that use the period.
We are talking France, and they are using comma. I don't see this as a show-stopper,
but only natural.
Best regards
keld