Austin Z. wrote:
On 13/01/06, Shot - Piotr S. [email protected] wrote:
Yohanes S.:
How can you have a default collation if there is no default culture.
Do what other languages do, ask the underlying operating
system for LC_COLLATE (or ask it to sort the data by itself).Which is not really appropriate for all operating systems, and is one
of the dumbest things about POSIX.
Can you explain why saying that this way of handling locales is one of
the
dumbest things about POSIX is not the dumbest thing to say?
Concerning “all” operating systems: not all OS might use the same
mechanism,
but any decent OS that wants to support multiple locales will have some
mechanism that is not too different from this one. In any case, figuring
out which locale to use is definitely something to do based on an
OS-setting.
Any programming language not supporting the locale mechanism and decent
handling of string encodings in all its libraries and functions
is really not worth to be called a modern programming language.