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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and Internationalization
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:23:19 +0200
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 07:53:36 -0700, James Dennett wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> I don't see how this is related to internationalization. It looks like 
>> stream communication (see S"Output attribute) or string formatting. In 
>> either case you convert data to/from stream/string.
> 
> Formatting of strings for human readers needs to produce
> output that is correctly localized, hence is always an
> issue in an internationalized program, non?

I am not sure. It looks like a question of content. Formatting is a quite
low level thing. Mixing content and formatting can turn very surprising.
There are right-to-left and top-down languages, word ordering might change,
their number as well, numerals, ordinals, articles, inflexions etc.

[ Both as a customer and vendor I always try to avoid internationalized
programs. (:-)) ]

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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