- From: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 02:03:48 -0500
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- CC: Steve Billings <billings@global360.com>, public-i18n-geo@w3.org
> At 16:18 03/01/06 -0500, Tex Texin wrote:
> >(Separate from the guidelines discussion:
> >There should be a way for a user to set their user agent locale
> >independent of O/S etc.
> >Perhaps in a style sheet? Then they can override it the same way they
> >might override accessibility settings.
> >)
Martin Duerst wrote:
>
> What do you mean by 'user agent locale'? Is that the language
> of the menu items and error messages, or anything else?
Sorry about the ambiguity. I was responding to Steve's points and meant
the locale that is used to influence the rendering of pages, applets,
etc.
I don't think it some come from the O/S but from something that the user
can control. It can be set today by making a selection in a form and/or
choices of web pages as you indicated in another mail. That limits a
user's choices to the configurations an author provides. So there might
be an English page with date formats like d/m/y and another with m/d/y
and another with y/m/d. But usually you are lucky to get a page with the
language and forget about date, number etc. formats. However, if this
was controlled by the user (perhaps through a style sheet) then there
would be far fewer combinations an author or publisher need provide.
You suggested in the other mail that we should recommend developers
create locale-insensitive applets. It's good to recommend it, but it is
not always achievable.
>
> Regards, Martin.
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