std.locale

Joel C. Salomon joelcsalomon at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 20:54:23 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> I've attempted to use locales, but the reason I'd always wind up doing
> it by hand is because the existing libraries to do it are obtuse,
> impenetrable, execrable, and pretty much unusable.
> 
> So it may be that it's an insoluble problem, or maybe nobody has come up
> with the right abstraction yet. I don't have nearly enough experience
> with it to know the answer.

Sounds like it’s not yet suitable for D2, then, at least not in std.
Perhaps put an experimental interface in ext?

—Joel Salomon



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