On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Ken Krugler wrote:
For the version of ICU that I've got on my disk (I'm not online right now)
the uprv_getDefaultLocaleID() call in putil.c certainly could use some work.
The copy I have calls GetIntlResource and then walks it, which (IIRC) is a
skanky hack to create something that works on Mac OS 9 & X.
Jeez, GetIntlResource is something I was working on back in 1986, and it was
a hack then.
If Chandler is only Mac OS X, then there are much better OS X APIs to use for
this information. The Mac port appears to have been done in 1998, so this
might just be legacy code in ICU that's never been cleaned up.
From a Mac perspective, Chandler is only Mac OS X. Mac OS 9 support is
definitely not in the cards.
I'd be interested in improving ICU with a patch (and therefore PyICU) in that
area. ICU's OS integration needs to work.
My understanding of the task ahead is that ICU needs to be able to get
OS-based locale defaults for:
- locale
- date and time formats
- number and currency formats
- timezone
Am I forgetting something ?
And ICU needs to update its defaults when the OS sees (and notifies about) a
change in any of these.
Andi..
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