On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > 4. Technical Description > > Locale services library is a library for locale related information > written Python planning tobe delivered to Solaris Next. Choice > of Python as an implementation language for this library is > influenced by > > * A request from installer team, for inclusion in text-installer > and auto installer are being re-written using python. > > * Python's richer set of libraries and ease of coding will cut > development time compared with writing these interfaces in C > > * Though providing such a library in C may appeal to a wider set > of projects, as of right now we do not have any such requirement.
There's a number of projects that could greatly benefit from a C library (even if that were implemented using IPC to a python daemon that uses your python library). For example, ssh(1) and sshd(1M) (which currently execute and parse the output of locale -a). But also C implementations of a growing number of Internet protocols that provide globalization features. Also, there's a tight coupling between locale definitions and this library, which is a good reason to consider having this library in ON. I didn't see any functions for searching for locales given RFC5066 language tags (and optional codeset, though in general when such a function is necessary one typically also cares only about UTF-8 as the codeset). Nico --
