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Re:The flaws of thinking "Just use Unicode" by seabee on Monday November 16, 2009 @09:46AM (#944481)
There's more to it than language replacement - there are cultural differences and representation of numbers, quantities etc., RTL support, allowing users to input their data in more than one language and have it behave in a reasonable manner...

But honestly, out of all the problems you can have, that's a good one indicative of success.

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Re:The flaws of thinking "Just use Unicode" by psranga on Monday November 16, 2009 @10:18AM (#944530)
I did a quick scan of the ICU library mentioned above (thanks for that!!) and it does handle these things. http://userguide.icu-project.org/i18n
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