Re: convenience method for creating locales?

[David Ayers]

Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:26 AM, David Wetzel wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > NSCalendarDate has descriptionWithCalendarFormat:locale: which needs a 
> > locale.
> >
> > Imagine I have a web application that needs a German (DE) locale for 
> > some sessions, for some a DE-AT
> > (January is 'Jänner' in Austrian not 'Januar' like German) and for 
> > some EN to name a few.
> > It does not matter what the locale of the current user process is.
> >
> > Is there something like
> >
> > // name is 'DE' or 'FR' or 'DE-AT'...
> > + (NSDictionary*) localeWithName:(NSSting*) shortName
> >
> > This should contain all data to create a localized NSCalendarDate.
>
> There really isn't something like this, but it might be nice to pull out 
> that functionality from NSUserDefaults (+standardUserDefaults).   The 
> only problem is, that for locales that aren't in the customized set that 
> is delivered with gnustep-base, you would have to temporarily set the 
> new locale, read the information from the i18n functions, then set the 
> locale back.

[stripped the cross posting]

I had talked to David about something along these lines, but I believe 
that switching locales isn't thread-safe/specific and I believe we are 
talking about a potentially multi-threaded web server application.

I'm a bit surprised that there doesn't seem to be a canonical solution 
to this issue but I haven't searched any cocoa-dev lists yet...

Cheers,
David