[Chandler-dev] Re: error in i18nmanager.py ?

[Ken Krugler]

Hi Brian,

>>I'm still missing what wx has to do with these things. Yes, you 
>>said that wx does a better job than ICU at determining the OS 
>>locale. If that is the case, I'd like to improve ICU instead.
>>Could you please educate me on what the difference is ? what should 
>>ICU do that wx does already ?
>>
>Again, from informal testing I found the wx.Locale did a much better 
>in picking up the correct Operating
>System locale. I would need to  take a few minutes to review the c / 
>C++ code for the two modules before I could comment on what 
>wx.Locale is doing different from PyICU.Locale.
>
>Improving PyICU Locale is certainly a worth while task.

For the version of ICU that I've got on my disk (I'm not online right 
now) the uprv_getDefaultLocaleID() call in putil.c certainly could 
use some work. The copy I have calls GetIntlResource and then walks 
it, which (IIRC) is a skanky hack to create something that works on 
Mac OS 9 & X.

Jeez, GetIntlResource is something I was working on back in 1986, and 
it was a hack then.

If Chandler is only Mac OS X, then there are much better OS X APIs to 
use for this information. The Mac port appears to have been done in 
1998, so this might just be legacy code in ICU that's never been 
cleaned up.

-- Ken
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