[fpc-pascal] DateToStr locale

[Henry Vermaak]

marco said:
>
> Not portable. E.g. on BSD it is /usr/share/locale
> So between 1 and 2 there should be a step "find locale dir".
>
> This because a solution is required to be Solaris, BSD and Mac OS X
> compatible.
>

true, there is a findlocale.c file under libc that deals with this.
this is a necessary step.

>> it'd quite nice to have a single function that queries certain
>> variables from certain categories (e.g. LC_MONETARY, LC_TIME,
>> LC_NUMERIC).

michael said:
>That can be done too, but since all constants are in 1 file, it makes
>more sense to process the file at once.

there is a separate file for each category, it seems.

i'll try and investigate further and look for the posix docs.  thanks
for the comments.

henry