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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:25:33 -0700
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:40:44 +0100 (CET), ams AT ludd DOT ltu DOT se wrote:

>According to Brian Inglis:
>> Due to limitations of the @file{country.sys} driver only
>> the current user locale @code{""} or its name in the POSIX-like form
>> @code{"@var{LL}_ AT var{TT}@var{eu}.@var{CP}"}, and @code{"C"} (aka
>> @code{"POSIX"}) locales are supported. 
>> @cindex locale code format
>> The POSIX-like locale code @code{"@var{LL}_ AT var{TT}@var{eu}.@var{CS}"}
>> consists of the ISO two letter lowercase language code @var{LL}, the
>> ISO two letter uppercase territory code @var{TT}, optionally followed
>> by the suffix @code{_EURO} @var{euro} if the country has adopted the
>> Euro as its currency unit, and the character set @var{CS} specified by
>> a code page number between 1 and 65534;
>> for example, @samp{"de_AT.850"} for the German-speaking Austrian
>> locale, or @samp{"fr_BE_EURO.850"} for the French-speaking Belgian
>> locale using the Euro, both using Western multilingual ``Latin-1''
>> code page number 850.
>
>I've decided to include the part above in setlocal.txh. But there a
>problem on this line (I can't quite parse it):

Go for it! 

>> by the suffix @code{_EURO} @var{euro} if the country has adopted the
>
>(I can't make sense of "@code{_EURO} @var{euro}".)

My mistake, should be @var{eu} to match the rest of the text. Perhaps
something like @var{ecu} would be a better abbreviation throughout? 

>Also, is euro really capitalised in English? Do you really write 15
>Pounds and 20 Dollars?

Don't know: it appears not from googling articles about it. 
IIRC capitalizing names of currency or other units was common when I
was younger, perhaps on the basis that they were considered "proper
names" in English, but common practice is now to capitalize only names
of units named after historical persons. YMMV if you write a different
(Germanic) language. 

-- 
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis