NAME
Acme::Study::OS::DateLocales - study date-specific locales
SYNOPSIS
None. Just run the Pod.
DESCRIPTION
This module misuses the CPAN testers system to study the result of date-specific locale operations. Some of the questions to answer:
- Can we rely on the fact that the locale implementation will return "bytes" in the given charset (encoding)?
- Is the %OB extension of <POSIX/strftime> supported?
RESULTS
* Solaris 10:
* does not understand %OB
* %B seems to return the genitive form
* the "short" locale names seem to link to the non-utf8 forms (iso-8859-1 or so)
* encoding seems to match the locale charset
* all Serbian variants are cyrillic
* FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0, 7.2:
* understands %OB, which is usually the nominative form of month names
* %B has the genitive form (modulo bugs, see the Croatian locale)
* encoding matches the locale charset
* the ISO8859-2 variant of Serbian is latin, all others are cyrillic
* it seems that all of locales are installed by default
* Linux (debian lenny):
* does not understand %OB
* encoding seems to match the locale charset
* Linux (debian etch):
* does not understand %OB
* %B returns the nominative form (at least for Croatian)
* encoding seems to match the locale charset
* the "short" locale names seem to link to the non-utf8 forms (iso-8859-1 or so)
* Linux (s390x-linux):
* does not understand %OB
* %B returns the nominative form (at least for Bosnian and Czech)
* the @euro form seems to be the same like the "short" locale (that is, iso-8859-15 or so)
* OpenBSD 4.5:
* does not seem to have the "locales -a" command, so only the default locale was tested
* understands %OB, contents (genitive vs. nominative) unclear
* Darwin 8:
* understands %OB, and seems to have the same bugs as the FreeBSD version
(Croatian locale)
* encoding matches the locale charset
* the ISO8859-2 variant of Serbian is latin, all others are cyrillic
* it seems that all of locales are installed by default
* MSWin32:
* does not understand %OB
* cygwin:
* does not seem to have the "locales -a" command, so only the default locale was tested
* understands %OB, contents (genitive vs. nominative) unclear
* irix 6.5:
* does not understand %OB
* does not have utf-8 locales, but iso-8859-15 locales
* the non-latin-1 locales (latin2, russian) don't have an encoding spec in its
locale name, so detecting the encoding must be done through an heuristic
AUTHOR
Slaven Rezic.