[gmpi] Re: lost-n-found

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:32:10AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.

wrong.  The STATE FILE must not be localized for exactly this reason.
It's probably worth noting that in the requirementc.  It's not enough to
include the locale info with the file - I might not even HAVE en_GB
capabilities - does that mean I can't load your state file?  Bollocks.

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