perl-i18n

Re: Perl i18n/l10n limitations?

2003-04-02 11:13:08
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:35:17PM +0000, Rich wrote:
Built in support seems limited to charsets, collation, and basic number 
formatting (printf etc). To query localization information, you have to 
rely on POSIX functionality which may or may not be present, and the 
information returned varies from platform to platform (what on earth do you 
do on Win32?)

This is not true.  Locale::Maketext uses Win32::Locale and HTTP header
parsing where necessary.

The future of perl appears to be utf8, but perlunicode states: "Use of 
locales with Unicode is discouraged" - this removes perl's built in support 
at a stroke.

No, it says that locales.pm is to be discouraged, not using its
information for interesting l10n applications.

I highly encourage you get aquainted with the Locale::Maketext
framework, and its built-in support for transforming things into
locale-specific equivalents via language subclasses.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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