Re: [Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

2006-08-31 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hello, Sadly we don't have sysglobl.dll which implements CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder. It is a bit messy that it requires additional consideration on how culture resources should be retrieved and stored (I have to admit that I dislike it since this framework works only on the machine that installe

Re: [Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

2006-09-03 Thread John Hatton
Atsushi, >Which culture do you need specifically ? Our product is for minority languages, many of them "endangered", few of which are in the ICU database. There some 6000 languages in the world, and most of these languages need, for example, small sort-order tailorings. The One Laptop Per Child

Re: [Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

2006-09-03 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hmm, what I cannot understand is that while you say that few of those languages you need are in ICU but you are still saying you will use ICU. Also note that CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder never helps custom string collation. That framework is only for number and date formatting. Atsushi Eno John H

Re: [Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

2006-09-03 Thread John Hatton
Atsushi, > Hmm, what I cannot understand is that while you say that few of those > languages you need are in ICU but you are still saying you will use > ICU. We don't need a language to be known to or distributed by ICU. We can use the ICU library, for example, by feeding it custom collation r

Re: [Mono-dev] How to make new locales for CultureInfo?

2006-09-03 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hello John, > We don't need a language to be known to or distributed by ICU. We can use > the ICU library, for example, by feeding it custom collation rules and then > asking it for sortkeys. We've done this in a previous project that was C++. > For this one, we'll make some kind of ICU-Sharp wra