Any plans for a standard multiplatform `Locale` ye...

# stdlib

[Marc Knaup]

Any plans for a standard multiplatform Locale yet?
It would be needed for a multiplatform time library to support formatting 🙂

[simon.vergauwen]

Why would you need a Locale that is not coupled to the library?

[Marc Knaup]

A Locale has nothing to do with time?
It's a basic building block like Java's Locale or ObjC's NSLocale.

[Marc Knaup]

Let's say you have a DateFormatter in a time lib. It would need a Locale to know what language to format the date in.

[simon.vergauwen]

Yes but in Java (or ObjC afaik) the DataFormatter is also in the std. Not sure if it's also used in other APIs in Java.

[Marc Knaup]

It is. But JetBrains wants to make its multiplatform time library standalone, so adding Locale to that wouldn't make sense.

[simon.vergauwen]

I think I've never used Locale outside of the Java Data apis, maybe I just don't understand your use case properly.

[Marc Knaup]

😮
Locale can be used for all kinds of i18n-related tasks like translations, formatting, locale-dependent resource loading etc.

[Czar]

And don't forget currency

[Marc Knaup]

And Country

[Marc Knaup]

I guess an i18n library is needed. And then datetime formatting can use that