Locale support

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Natanael copa wrote:

>> (I vaguely understand unicode but have no idea how locale support would work
>> into it.  There's date and time, currency translation, commas and decimal
>> places in numbers, time zones, and all sorts of other weird stuff...)
>
> Unicode is a character set. Not a locale.

True, but at least in Linux there are often variants of the locale which 
include different character sets including Unicode. E.g. for Canadian 
English you have en_CA, en_CA.iso88591 and en_CA.utf8 (UTF-8 being a 
representation of Unicode).

/Ricard
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