Georg Wrede wrote:
The hypothetical Ambitious Programmer might want to use locale. He could then have the dates and times (and currencies, etc.) follow the country. Now, that might sound commendable, but in practice it *crumbles*. He can't possibly know how to deal with languages that are written backwards, languages where several characters make one letter, exotic ways of writing dates, etc.
*cough*tango.time*cough*
