Re: [BLACKBOX] AW: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox 1.6 final version?

From: [at]} <David>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:57:10 -0400

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I was referring to date, monetary and decimal number formats (European
vs. American formatting conventions for decimal numbers). I wasn't
proposing any particular solution, I was just stating that support for
European and American formatting conventions can be implemented
without causing any ambiguity. It's been done in other languages.

I think support for internationalization in Java and MS .NET go beyond
Unicode support, although I'm not an expert in either. I don't have
any opinion on how these things should be implemented, but anyone who
plans to develop software for the international market, or even
regional markets, has to handle the problem somehow. Unless you're
just using CP for your own personal use, but that seems contrary to
the whole concept of a component-based software industry.

David.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Josef
Templ<Josef.Templ{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Java has unicode characters as its support for internationalization on the
> language level and not much more.
> Pretty much the same as CP but with more elaborate escapes
> for special characters in string literals.
> Number and Date formats are a matter of library classes.
> So we should not mix that up and I hope that nobody
> proposes to introduce localized keywords and the like...
>
> - JT
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <dfkettle{([at]})nowhere.xy
> To: <BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] AW: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox 1.6 final version?
>
>
> Languages which support internationalization, such as Java and the
> Microsoft .NET framework, don't seem to have any problem doing this.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Rex Couture<rex{([at]})nowhere.xy
>>
>> At 03:45 AM 7/4/2009, Detlef.Jankowiak-Evers wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Marc, dear All,
>>>
>>> one thing I'm missing all the time is to be able to type in numbers in
>>> german style (, as decimal point ).
>>
>>
>> But can you avoid ambiguity if a comma is to be used as a separator?
>
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