Re: Mac ordering with locales

On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> I have looked for a standard related to the locale behavior and I was
>> surprised that I couldn't find one. Is a given locale, e.g. en_US,
>> supposed to have identical behavior on any platform for which it's
>> available?
>>
>> If there is a standard of some kind, is apple violating it?
>
> Nope. If there were we could complain about it. All we have now is
> many
> different implementations. The most commonly used ones are Java, ICU,
> glibc and Windows. AIUI all except Windows understand the xx_XX
> format.
> Java and ICU are essentially the same.
>
> I found a note that both Perl6 and PHP6 may use ICU. That would be an
> interesting change.

Darwin also uses ICU extensively. Is it that time of year again to
discuss using/linking against it?

Cheers,
M