Hi, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> writes: > >> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I >> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch. It's not that >> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to >> handle the locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekday name, >> AM/PM, and the ordering of dates). > > Is there a portable way to find the relevant locale files and interpret > them, on both POSIX and Windows systems? If so, can you point out the > relevant documentation? The (ice-9 i18n) module provides bindings to nl_langinfo et al. The actual data format is specific to the C library, so I think we cannot portably go deeper than what (ice-9 i18n) does. Ludo’.
