Re: Please verify proposed change to Turkish glibc locale

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>]

[Nilgün Belma Bugüner]
> Hi,
>
> The grammar rules published by the Turkish Language Institution (TDK)
> make no distinciton between monetary and numerical representations.
> However the monetary representation has gained public recognition 
> because of the stress placed on this matter by the Turkish
> Ministry of Finance. Nevertheless this representation is not as
> well defined as in the documentation of th GNU C libraries
> (probably because the related rule set was prepared during the pre-IT era).
> 
> On the other hand, due to the international nature of the scientific 
> publications, the numerical representation has not been as widely 
> accepted as the monetary representation. The fix I have sent you uses 
> the publically accepted form of the rules that were left unspecified 
> by the Turkish Language Institution.
> 
> It is possible not to make any grouping using the strfmon function. 
> Therefore the same tersary grouping can be used in the numerical 
> representation as in the monetary representation. The substitution of 
> period with comma is possible by assigning "C" to the LC_NUMERIC variable. 
> Consequently the current number representations adopted by the Turkish
> Language Institution can be used both in the numerical and in the monetary 
> representations, provided that their grammar rules stay the same 
> (if not changed in the grammar rules currently being revised).
> 
> In order to end the current debate, the patch sent in can be assumed 
> valid a priori.

Thank you for your comments.  Would you mind adding your comments at
<URL:http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187> to make
them available for the glibc maintainers and others?

I'm not the one you need to convince.  I'm just preparing the change
request for the glibc maintainers to accept, and it would be most
convinient for them if all relevant comments are added to the glibc
bugzilla.