RE: PATCH: Euro

[Patrik Stridvall]

> This patch changes the NLS currency of all Euro countries to 
> use the "EUR" 
> as international currency and the euro-sign (iso-8859-15, 
> character 164).

Hmm. While I'm do not doubt that some users of Wine might find this useful,
Wine is supposed to do what Windows does and if Windows does something
wrong Wine usually should as well.

If I'm not mistaken the .nls contains that default values. It is
entirely possible to change the currency and such in the registry
to specify things differently for each user.

That said I would find it unlikely that this patch would cause any
serious problem. After all, as I said, the user can specify whatever
currency it likes after the defaults have been set and every application
is supposed to be able to handle it.

So I do not really oppose the patch. It is more the principle I'm intrested
in:
Under what circumstances should Wine change the behavior
if Windows does something in the wrong way?

PATCH: Euro

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > This patch changes the NLS currency of all Euro countries to
> > use the "EUR"
> > as international currency and the euro-sign (iso-8859-15,
> > character 164).
>
> Hmm. While I'm do not doubt that some users of Wine might find this useful,
> Wine is supposed to do what Windows does and if Windows does something
> wrong Wine usually should as well.

Nuts!  Wine is an implementation of the windows API, not a copy of any
damned thing.  We only need to implement bugs when some useful apps rely
on them.

Lawson

PATCH: Euro

[Marcus Meissner]

> So I do not really oppose the patch. It is more the principle I'm intrested
> in:
> Under what circumstances should Wine change the behavior
> if Windows does something in the wrong way?

I have no clue how windows does that, do they have Euro service pack?

Fact is though that the the currency has been changed, so it should be
reflected in the NLS defaults.

Ciao, Marcus

PATCH: Euro

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > This patch changes the NLS currency of all Euro countries to 
> > use the "EUR" 
> > as international currency and the euro-sign (iso-8859-15, 
> > character 164).
>
> Hmm. While I'm do not doubt that some users of Wine might find this useful,
> Wine is supposed to do what Windows does and if Windows does something
> wrong Wine usually should as well.

Wrong? Microsoft has released Euro updates for Windows, which seems like
it's supposed to change the Windows NLS files to use the new currency. It
should be available on the Windows Update site. I don't see anything wrong
here.