unknown locale de_DE at euro

[Martin v. Löwis]

pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> > The locale de_DE at euro  (which I uses ISO-8859-15 as encoding), as used by
> > e.g. SuSe 8.0 Linux
> 
> Is not `@euro' fairly abusing the concept of language dialect? :-(

The '@' is not reserved, in use, for a dialect. Instead, it is a more
general 'modifier'. In this case, it modifies the LC_MONETARY
category; as a side effect, it also modifies the codeset (to allow the
representation of the monetary symbol in a single byte).

Regards,
Martin