On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, David Starner wrote:
> At 08:46 PM 7/26/02 -0700, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: > >That does leave you with the must less happy problem of finding a platform > >with user defined locales (approximately no platforms conveniently do this). > What's wrong with Linux's user defined locales? I attach one s/Linux/Single Unix Spec. compliant OS/ :-) BTW, the keyword in Addison's message may have been 'conveniently'. > in actual use; while the format isn't the clearest and simplest > in the world, any computer geek could fix you up a new locale > given a few hours. For some locales, tayloring LC_COLLATE may be a bit too hard to finish in a few hours unless you're already familiar with all the subtleties of ISO/IEC 14651 (and possibly UCA as well.) For instance, see N891R of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20. > You could write a nice GUI program to simplify > the matter, but it's not something that many users are interested > about, especially given Unix's flexibilty at mixing features from > different locales. I can't agree with you more here. Actually I wrote almost exactly the same back in March (http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/2002-m03/0033.html : username : unicode-ml, password: unicode ) Jungshik Shin
