Comment 6 for bug 1264551

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In , Carlos-0 (carlos-0) wrote :

(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #3)
> (In reply to Chris Leonard from comment #1)
> > Is this best handled by the creation of an @euro locale (like some many
> > others) or are we beyond that point in time and should be gin jsut making
> > direct changes to locales?
>
> If the locales character set already has the euro symbol then I see no
> reason not to directly edit the locale itself. If we need a new character
> set then that's a different issue and then we should be using @euro to
> transition from the old character set to the new one. I don't know if the
> the BALTIC charset in use by lv_LV has a euro symbol. If it doesn't then I
> recommend we create lv_LV@euro with an alternate charset that supports the
> euro symbol.

Please note that this isn't a make-work project, but rather that there is some software that doesn't yet work with the euro symbol correctly, therefore we provide two locales during a transitional period to allow users to run certain applications using the old locale.