From:	John ORourke	Date:	Mon Jul  2 19:02:45 2007
Subject:	Re: [perl-i18n] Perl locale information sources for server apps, and the CLDR

Guido Flohr wrote:
> The most important point of POSIX::setlocale() is that it changes 
> behaviors of existing functions.  Error messages ($!) are 
> automatically localized, provided that the system supports the 
> selected locale.  When you output floating point numbers, the correct 
> floating point format will be chosen.

This is ok, but in a server application the user is not going to see an 
Operating System message, and in my case I am exclusively using Unicode, 
so the default Unicode collation works fine a lot of the time.

> 3) If you need more locale specific data, simply integrate them in 
> your applications message catalogs for the specific locale, see 
> Locale::Maketex or Locale::TextDomain for details.

This is exactly the problem I wish to address - as far as I can tell 
there is no consistent, complete, well maintained source of locale data 
currently available - Locale::TextDomain/Maketex and the other 
message-catalogue-style modules are all for storing locale-specific 
messages, which does not do anything for this problem.

I suppose the *nix vendors keep their POSIX locale data up to date but I 
can't seem to find any info on how that process happens - who collects 
locale data, etc.

cheers
John