On 03-Feb-2000 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>| IDEA for setting locale on the document language:
>| -------------------------------------------------
>|
>| We store the different babel-languages in tex-strings.C::tex_babel[].
>| Would it be possible to instead of having only the name a structure like this:
>|
>| {"english babel name", "locale babel name", "locale string"}
>|
>| for example:
>|
>| { "default", "default", "" },
>| ...
>| { "german", "deutsch", "de_DE" },
>| ...
>| { "italian", "italiano", "it_IT" },
>| ...
>|
>| If we would have that it would be REALLY easy to set the right
>| locales in function where they are needed on base of the document
>| language!!!
>
> This is a C way of doing it since C can't handle several locales at
> the same time. C++ and it wonderful Standard Library on the other hand
> does support this. And IMHO we should use the C++ locale support.
>
Well then please enlighten me :)! How would you know from the babel
document-language what locale to use???
Greets Jürgen
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