Fabian Giesen  

"The [C localization functions] are used in multilingual programs to adapt to the specific locale."

I mean sort of, in much the same way that your 3-year old totally provided vital support in baking that tray of cookies

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Fabian Giesen  

Coming from a locale where "." is the thousands separator and "," the decimal separator, "this program is locale aware" is usually an "oh no", not "oh great"

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@rygorous I don't think I have ever used a system that isn't a weird hybrid of both. I try to install all my stuff using the "default" local, whenever documented, but all my files are a weird mix depending on where they where created.

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SirWumpus 👾🍁  

@ekg @rygorous

List separator in France and parts of Europe is ; instead of ,. But then in CSV you could double quote your fields, provided you have means to escape a double-quote. Gotta love intl. computing.

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SirWumpus 👾🍁  

@ekg @rygorous

I had a manager exclaim after studying the amount of work to support intl. character sets and regions in our code base "It might be cheaper to just give ever user an en/jp dictionary plus language lessons."

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