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 at Jan 20, 2005 03:25:33 pm"
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According to Brian Inglis:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:40:44 +0100 (CET), ams AT ludd DOT ltu DOT se wrote:
> >According to Brian Inglis:
...
> >> 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.
...
> >> 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? 

I'm sorry but my un-understanding remains. That line reads in info 
"by the suffix _EURO euro if the country has adopted the", i. e. I
consider the word "euro" extraneous (I hope that's the correct English
word).


Right,

						MartinS