Talk:Locale
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I'm not sure this should necessarily be merged. There is a great deal more that could be said about locale: even without getting into e-commerce considerations: beyond choice of language, there are probably 15-20 aspects of locale, ranging from the formats of dates and times (and, for that matter, choice of calendar) and what character is used as the decimal point to paper sizes to collation rules. I could easily imagine enough to say about locale to constitute an article. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:25, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Locale topic should definitely be expanded
I agree that so much more information could be presented regarding what "locale" really ends up meaning in practical terms within system implementations. One could even argue that the notion of "locale" isn't effectively addressed by the built-in locale support of all the various computing environments. For example, the baked-in fallback rules around resolving locale-sensitive data processing are often in direct conflict with the functional requirements of a system. Imagine for a moment an ecommerce Web site in the US marketing its wares and services to the Spanish and Chinese speaking communities within the US. Never mind that Java currently doesn't provide "zh_US" and "es_US" locales, but even if they did, they wouldn't likely behave as expected/needed. If "*_US" fails to accommodate a processing request of some sort, then "zh" or "es" will gladly format the data for the US-based user as though he was in China or Spain, respectively. This can be particularly problematic when working with currency values and time zone math. IGLOBALIZE 23:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What's with the Unix commands??
Why is there a list of unix commands on a page that has nothing to do with them? I see no reason at all for having the {unix commands} on the page, shouldn't it be removed?--62.142.59.83 12:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
