Re: Perl i18n/l10n limitations?

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:35:17PM +0000, Rich wrote:
> Built in support seems limited to charsets, collation, and basic number 
> formatting (printf etc). To query localization information, you have to 
> rely on POSIX functionality which may or may not be present, and the 
> information returned varies from platform to platform (what on earth do you 
> do on Win32?)

This is not true.  Locale::Maketext uses Win32::Locale and HTTP header
parsing where necessary.

> The future of perl appears to be utf8, but perlunicode states: "Use of 
> locales with Unicode is discouraged" - this removes perl's built in support 
> at a stroke.

No, it says that locales.pm is to be discouraged, not using its
information for interesting l10n applications.

I highly encourage you get aquainted with the Locale::Maketext
framework, and its built-in support for transforming things into
locale-specific equivalents via language subclasses.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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