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Author lemburg
Recipients Arfrever, benjamin.peterson, lemburg, loewis, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-03-08.11:35:17
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On 08.03.2017 07:27, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 
> Why is the X11 locale alias map used at all? It seems like it can only create confusion with libc.

Because it was the only such maintained mapping available at the
time. It's also used for the X.org system, which has a rather strong
focus on user interfaces where locale matter a lot, unlike
the lib C :-)
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