Re: gettext locale environment variable documentation

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Can someone explain what this @modifier syntax is actually used for,
> in today's systems?

Sun's documentation says a modifier is "the name of the
characteristics that differentiate the locale from the locale without
the modifier."  Which means pretty much anything goes.

In the old days the most popular modifier in Solaris was "euro", e.g.,
address@hidden  I think the "@euro" meant that the default currency
symbol was the euro.  Nowadays (Solaris 10) the only modifiers I know
about are those in address@hidden, address@hidden,
address@hidden, and address@hidden  I don't know what
those three modifiers are used for.