[gmpi] Re: lost-n-found

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:11:29 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > However, these functions are often locale-sensitive, which means the
> 
> Absolutely!  But locale *only* matters when an end user is going to be
> part of the equasion.    If your plugin or host wants to store it's own
> data in ROT13 or base64 or whatever, that's fine, provided that no user
> will be asked to input that data or read that data.  Right?

Its not that simple. Imagine someone in france mails me a session file
that includes state for the Foo plugin, in the fr_FR locale it will
contain lots of numbers like 1.200 and 1,2, which my en_GB system will
interpret wrongly.

- Steve

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