On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:39:57AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > I have yet to meet a person who would ever need a slovak locale. > Nobody cares at all (collate order? who needs that? Different > format of numbers? This is not only unneeded, but even harmful. > Different format of date? Who cares.. Gettext? Maybe, but nobody > I know is using it, because they mostly understand english and > slovak menus are more difficult to get used to when 70% of applications > would be in English anyway). > The _only_ _sole_ reason why people (I know) are using locales is to > allow passing of 8-bit chars unaffected to/from the console (xterm, X, > etc...) >
I mostly agree, LC_CTYPE is the main thing I'm interested in with locales, except for one other thing. Date format is *very* important. To explain, my parents' anniversary is 8/1/63. Shall I congratulate them in August, or in January? Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
