Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA]

Hi,

At Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:32:50 -0500,
Paul Jarc wrote:

> Future users can express their preferences just as well as present
> users.  Why should we work so hard *now* for people who haven't even
> started using the software yet, and who might not think what we expect
> them to think?  Why not just wait for them to actually complain, and
> then work to satisfy them only if and when that happens?

I am saying about leaving the exact format of date to gettext.
Then new users will able to write a new .po file.  Otherwise,
we have to discuss again to reach a new uniform date expression.

I don't heard any reason which insists "standardization" way is
better than "localization" way YET -- though I heard some opinions
which insist that "standardization" way is not so bad.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden>
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