Jeff, did you get any reply to this?

Tim.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:33:35PM -0800, Jeff Zucker wrote:
> I have recently had some requests for assistance with localization for 
> DBD::CSV.  The situation is this:  if  a user adds "use locale" in 
> SQL::Statement, the DBD will be able to use a localized sort order and 
> localized comparison operations.  If a user adds it also in SQL::Parser, 
> they will also be able to use a localalized definition of alphanumeric 
> to define valid SQL identifiers (e.g. accented characters recognized by 
> the locale setting become valid in table or column names without 
> delimiting the identifiers).  As I understand it, these are both within 
> the spirit of ANSI SQL -- that the sort order and definition of 
> alphanumeric is legitimately variable depending on localization.
> 
> I am really very ignorant about localization.  Is what I am proposing a 
> sane thing to encourage users to do?  Is there any other way I can make 
> it user-definable without having them muck with the actual module text? 
> Are there any other gotchas I need to know about?
> 
> -- 
> Jeff
> 

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