Re: NSCalendar and NSLocale support

[Robert J. Slover]

Ouch.  That is good to know.

We ended up not doing the localization work anyway.  The customer  
wanting it didn't want to fund it.

We have no C++ code, but tons of C code (some around 30 years old)  
which would need this if the idea ever comes 'round again.

--Robert

On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Pete French wrote:

> > I would concur, but IIRC from when I looked at it a couple of years
> > ago, there is basically a pure C API and a C++ API side-by-side.  The
>
> Just to save you some time, don't use the C API, as it doesnt work
> properly. I went through this a couple of weeks ago. Did a C version,
> got odd results, and ended up recoding the lot in C++ with C wrappers
> to interface to Obj-C. That works a lot better (much as I hate C++)
> I was doing transliterations, so I have no idea if the C API would  
> work
> ffor other things, but my experinece was that it wasn't any good.  
> Subtle
> wrong results, the worst kind of bug!
>
> -pete.