On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Jeff Steinkamp wrote:
> And thus is the problem with trying to internationalize a software product
> where data, in text format, can be passed back and forth easily.
>
> The space character for a date separator is not part of the enumerated set.
> It is '-' or '/' for the short date format.
>
> With international correspondence, the official date format is usually DD MMM
> YYYY when using English. But the short date format is one of the following:
>
> DD-MM-YYYY
> MM-DD-YYYY
> YYYD-MM-DD
>
> where the separator is a '-' or '/'.
>
> To eliminate this problem in Windows and Delphi I normally read the
> DateSeperator and ShortDateFormat and save them to a temporary variable,
> Change the separator to a '/' and set the short date format to mm-dd-yyyy.
> Once the program exits, I restore the DateSeperator and ShortDateFormat
> globals.
Delphi as of D7 has most routines in such a way that you can pass
a set of internationalization settings which it should use.
(TFormatSettings or so, I think it's called). FPC has the same
in Subversion.
Michael.
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