| From: | "A(dot)M(dot)" <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Mac ordering with locales |
| Date: | 2008-02-22 15:58:00 |
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On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> I have looked for a standard related to the locale behavior and I was
>> surprised that I couldn't find one. Is a given locale, e.g. en_US,
>> supposed to have identical behavior on any platform for which it's
>> available?
>>
>> If there is a standard of some kind, is apple violating it?
>
> Nope. If there were we could complain about it. All we have now is
> many
> different implementations. The most commonly used ones are Java, ICU,
> glibc and Windows. AIUI all except Windows understand the xx_XX
> format.
> Java and ICU are essentially the same.
>
> I found a note that both Perl6 and PHP6 may use ICU. That would be an
> interesting change.
Darwin also uses ICU extensively. Is it that time of year again to
discuss using/linking against it?
Cheers,
M
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