I would like to see a "Locale" property in the environment.

We already have the uiLanguage and osLanguage properties--that's a big help 
for people like me who do a lot of localization.

Localization is a bigger issue than language, though--there is also the 
locale. The Spanish spoken in Mexico is different from the Spanish spoken 
in Argentina or Spain. Same for French--Canada, France, Belgium, 
Switzerland. There are cultural differences beyond language as 
well--decimal separators, time display, currency, volume and distance 
measurements, and the like.

It's easy enough to get the locale from Windows--it's a simple call in 
C/C++. I've done less on the Mac, so I'm not sure how easy it is, but I 
suspect it's not difficult.

I'm sending this to the Director wish list, but I'm curious--are there 
others out there on Lingo-L who would use this feature?

Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
Learning Network


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