std.locale

[Frits van Bommel]

Don wrote:
> there's no simple solution. (<gripe> They could at least recognize that 
> outside the US, everyone uses A4-size paper, not that bizarro 
> letter/legal stuff </gripe>).

Amen!

>> It is usual that the user needs to write, say, in Swedish or in 
>> Russian, while in a Finnish setting. Or that one wants to use a 
>> decimal separator other than what is "proper" for the country.
>>
>> For example, a lot of people use "." instead of the official "," in 
>> Finland, and many use time as "18:23" instead of "18.23".
> 
> This is my experience as well. There's an awful lot of expats in the world.

Not just expats.
For example: I was born & raised in the Netherlands, but even though 
officially we use a decimal comma here, I almost always use a decimal 
point instead. This may have been caused by use of the US keyboard 
layout (and its numeric keypad in particular), but I now even catch 
myself using it when writing with a pen...

> I nearly always end up setting the locale to "Antarctica", it turns off 
> most the locale logic <g>. There's so many programs that try to be too 
> clever.

lol :)