From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T08:08:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Locales

On 4/15/05, Molitor, Stephen L <Stephen.L.Molitor@erac.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good library for doing locale sensitive formatting
> of numbers, money, and time?  I.e.:
> 
>   require 'locale.rb'
> 
>   locale = Locale['fr_FRA']
>   french_format = 10000.99.to_s(locale)
>     #=> "10.000,99"
> 
>   default_locale_format = 10000.99.to_s
>     #=> "10,000.99"

Not that I know of. I know that the number formatting method I wrote
many months ago and Gavin Sinclair included in his Extensions library
does some locale-like formatting and is more configurable.

It would be a good basis for a localization module if you want to use
it, as well.

-austin
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