Re: Extent of localisation customisation (was Re: Preferences, System Tools)

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Maw, 2004-06-08 at 16:25, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Whatever GNOME does wouldn't be done on system-level, so there would
> be a lot of inconsistent messages.  So, some programs might still
> produce locale-based date-format if it's using strftime instead of
> "g_strftime".

If they produce different results then fix g_strftime so it isnt buggy.

> Realistic goal seems to be to aim for a single platform: i.e. we
> could base ourselves on all the locales provided by GNU libc.  If
> there's a strong need for a variant locale, then we create a new one
> and try to add it to GNU libc (it's trivial to make such simple
> changes, but it's not trivial to add new locales to GNU libc, and we
> don't want to add thousands there, just ocassional, really needed
> ones).

You get combinatorial explosions. Providing you stop talking about
locales and start talking [IYNativeLanguageH] then users seem to have no
problem with the idea of date order, number format and so on as further
optional choices. Its something non programmers deal with all the time.
Most people know about the funny US date format.