John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking at i18n again, particularly from the point of view of the
> gui. I think we sort of came to a concensus on the text below.
> Perhaps we ought to copy it into a readme file somewhere.
>
> I want to go ahead and implement SET LOCALE. It seems that SPSS (for
> Windoze) accepts as arguments to SET LOCALE only a few keywords. Ie
> SET LOCALE = {GERMAN, JAPANESE, ENGLISH} which is crazy in IMHO. I
> propose that we implement it such that it takes a string. Eg:
>
> SET LOCALE = 'de_DE'. or
> SET LOCALE = 'jp'.
>
> and also allow GERMAN, JAPANESE and ENGLISH as synonyms for "de", "jp"
> and "en" respectively.
Sounds good to me.
> There are some other issues which have become apparent, in some
> experiments I've been doing recently. In particular, I'm in two minds
> whether PSPP should take any notice of any aspect of the given locale
> other than its character encoding. But that's probably a topic that
> should be discussed seperately.
OK.
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