On Mon 26 Aug 2002 22:14, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:05:26PM -0400, John Peacock wrote: > > I have a module, Math::Currency, which tries to be very smart with regard > > to POSIX locale settings when defining the default currency formatting. > > However, since I can only test on _my_ systems, I am limited in my ability > > to guess all of the strange locale settings that may be in use. > > > > Specifically, in order to test that the locale stuff is working, I need to > > have two different locales installed to switch between. Currently, I am > > using en_US and en_GB, but obviously that ignores most of the planet. > > This doesn't answer any of your questions (sorry) but IIRC on p5p it was > found that fa_IR caused quite a lot of "fun", as it used a character for > the decimal separator that was multibyte. (certainly for standard numerics, > which is what core perl was concerned with. No idea about monetary values, > and as I don't understand any Farsi or have any Farsi fonts installed, it's > not going really to help if I have a look.) > > So you may wish to install fa_IR and test with that.
I know Jarkko had lots of fun with Hongarian EBCDIC machines :) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl CORE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
