Re: Windows Locales

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler") Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:22:02 -0700

Newsgroups	perl.datetime
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On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> I'm not sure why you think this would work on Linux either. On my system here's what I get:
> 
>  perl  -MPOSIX -E 'say POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_TIME())'
>  en_US.UTF-8

Yeah, me too.

> That locale will not make DateTime::Locale happy either.

Seems okay with it:

> perl -MDateTime -MPOSIX -E 'my $dt = DateTime->now; $dt->set(locale => POSIX::setlocale( POSIX::LC_TIME() ) ); say $dt->locale'
DateTime::Locale::en_US=HASH(0x7fc90a297dd8)

> Of course, this one's relatively easy to make into something DateTime can handle, whereas the Windows one is _way_ off. Either way, I think you may need to rethink how you translate the user's locale for DateTime.
> 
> I'm not really sure what the best way to do it is besides presenting users with an explicit choice.
> 
> With Windows, someone might want to maintain a master translation list of Windows names to CLDR names, much like we currently translate timezone names.

I found Win32::Locale, which seems to do what I need it to.

Best,

David