[gmpi] Re: lost-n-found

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:51:50AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> 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.

That was my point.

- Steve

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