- From: Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xnetinc.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:28:23 -0700
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
Paul, I think of a locale as a set of data for parameters that are universal that vary by either language or location. In this broad definition things like mailing address formats and time zones fit in the criteria as well as the traditional locale parameters. I do not believe that they have to be universal to most applications. You speak of cultural preferences. While times zones are partially geophysical they are also cultural. Time zones have disputed boundaries, starting and ending daylight times based on non-Gregorian calendars, political enclaves who do not want DST, half hour DST zones. etc. They are often cultural as well. My original point is that they can be managed in the application just like the application manages locales. I feel as such you can consider them an extention to traditional locales. Carl
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