John J. Lee wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > > There would also need to be a flag field to indicate the canonical > > > ordering > > > for writing out the full name: e.g. family-name-first, given-names-first. > > > Do we need something else for the Vietnamese case? > > > > You'd think some standards body would have worked on this, wouldn't > > you. I couldn't think of a Google search string that would lead to > > such information, though. Maybe other, more determined, readers can do > > better. > > I suppose very few projects actually deal with more than a handful of > languages or cultures, but it does surprise me how hard it is to find > out about this kind of thing -- especially given that open source > projects often end up with all kinds of weird and wonderful localised > versions. > > On a project that involved 9 localisations, just trying to find > information on the web about standard collation of diacritics > (accented characters) in English, German, and Scandinavian languages > was more difficult than I'd expected.
As far as I understand unicode.org has become the central(?) source of locale information: http://unicode.org/cldr/ Did you use it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list