Nothing wrong with it, hence "approximately" ;-) My hyperbole was getting in the way of accuracy there, as I'm aware of the Linux locale thing (for that matter, most POSIX systems will let you compile a locale with a fair bit of effort, and JDK1.5 is rumored to possibly include user-def locales, so heck...)
Addison > -----Original Message----- > From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:07 AM > To: Addison Phillips [wM]; Curtis Clark > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: REALLY *not* Tamil - changing scripts (long) > > > At 08:46 PM 7/26/02 -0700, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: > >That does leave you with the must less happy problem of finding > a platform > >with user defined locales (approximately no platforms > conveniently do this). > > What's wrong with Linux's user defined locales? I attach one > in actual use; while the format isn't the clearest and simplest > in the world, any computer geek could fix you up a new locale > given a few hours. You could write a nice GUI program to simplify > the matter, but it's not something that many users are interested > about, especially given Unix's flexibilty at mixing features from > different locales. > > -- > David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]