Re: Windows Locales

[email protected] (Dave Rolsky)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David E. Wheeler wrote:

>> 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)

Heh, go figure. I think I wrote that code, but forgot about it. It strips 
off any trailing character set in the locale code.

>> 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.

Ah, cool. Looking at it I suspect it's probably out of date and missing 
some codes that might be used in Windows since 2004, but it's better than 
nothing.

I should add a mention of this to the DateTime::Locale docs.


-dave

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