Re: [mv] Locale stuff

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 jojo@buchonline.net wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from jojo@buchonline.net     ******
> 
> Hi Mike Heins,
> 
> > Dear All,
> > One reason for the confusion about this stuff I think is
> > clear; I have never emphasized the power of this setting
> > in catalog.cfg:
> > 
> > 	Locale de_DE
> 
> I use this i.e. in my srchfrom page at the top of the page like
> [setlocale de_DE].
> 
> And in my catalog.cfg i have

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> 
>  
> > Try this sometime. It sets MiniVend's locale to that as the default,
> > and automatically brings in the POSIX currency settings defined in
> > the locale distribution. It should also cause sorting and searching
> > to be correct for that locale.
> > 
> > Be careful -- the last one pertains, or the one that is specified
> > as "default" in LocaleDatabase (locale.asc in the demo).
> > 
> > Now the big question at hand is this:
> > 
> > 	Should [setlocale foo] cause sorting and collation to change?
>
> I have little trouble to sort the items. I have 
>

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> 
> in my srchform page. I try to find "Kind" (child) with Sorting by title
> and i get this:
> 
> 

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> > 
> > I am not sure it should; this could cause some real problems, some

> > very nasty and gnarly ones. Even with the wonderful "use locale" capability
> > of Perl, it will be hard to track what needs be done.
> > 
> > I need input on all of this -- while I have tried very hard to 
> > make MiniVend an international piece of software, I need your help.
> > I live in the still-very-monocultural United States.
>  
> I am not sure, which input you need. MV is great and i like MV (Thank
> you a lot for this fine program!) I want to help you and i want to
> prop/support you. Maybe you have or create another little perl code to
> test the sorting order, uppercase and lowercase with a little
> products.asc (created by the user self) without minivend? I think it
> will help us to test, if something is wrong with OS, with perl, with t
> he setting of locale or with minivend.
> 
> Can you suggest me, how can i prop/support you?

Hi JoJo,

I had the same question as you have (how can I support you?) and
like to suggest or solicit some help as well. Having only worked
with an English book catalog a long time ago, I like to try out
a multilingual test catalog (books) on the upcoming MV4. 

What would be of help for me, is finding some sample book related
product.asc files for French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German book
titles as they are provided by wholesalor's databases in those
countries. (Let's say 4000-10000 titles each)

Of course if someone has files for Russian and Japanese Book titles or
any other language and wouldn't mind donating them for testing purposes
purely that would be great too.

I can't afford to pay another license fee for the databases provided
by the various wholesalors in Europe and would appreciate some help
in getting data at no cost. Test catalog would be made public, if I
manange to make one. 8-)

Anyone who deals with books and would like to give me some hint where
to get data, please email me.

Thanks,  

Birgitt Funk