Re: Wrong Way ?

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Henning Glawe wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> could it be that the current way of i18n is not the right way to go ?
> The unix-Locale-System causes a that big increase of work in
> software-development..A few thesis to that point:
> -use the locale ONLY to determine the language for messages

And, of course, the date format.
Oh, and the currency format.
Oh, and right-to-left or vertical text may totally change the layout of
the dialog boxes.
Oh, and...... well maybe the apparent messiness of the current solution
does have some point.

Regards,
Steve