SRFI 29 (Localization)

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What to use for language/locale identifiers? Lassi Kortela (27 Jul 2020 05:55 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Lassi Kortela (27 Jul 2020 06:03 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Lassi Kortela (27 Jul 2020 08:33 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? John Cowan (28 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Lassi Kortela (28 Jul 2020 20:57 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Alex Shinn (29 Jul 2020 01:07 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? John Cowan (29 Jul 2020 01:09 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Alex Shinn (29 Jul 2020 01:44 UTC)
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Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Lassi Kortela (29 Jul 2020 06:16 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Alex Shinn (29 Jul 2020 07:45 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? John Cowan (29 Jul 2020 13:56 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Alex Shinn (29 Jul 2020 15:39 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? John Cowan (29 Jul 2020 16:30 UTC)
Re: What to use for language/locale identifiers? Alex Shinn (30 Jul 2020 08:22 UTC)
SRFI 29 (Localization) Lassi Kortela (30 Jul 2020 16:55 UTC)
Re: SRFI 29 (Localization) Alex Shinn (31 Jul 2020 14:09 UTC)
Re: SRFI 29 (Localization) John Cowan (31 Jul 2020 15:31 UTC)
How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (31 Jul 2020 15:54 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (31 Jul 2020 15:56 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? John Cowan (02 Aug 2020 03:40 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (02 Aug 2020 08:34 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (02 Aug 2020 09:27 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (02 Aug 2020 09:36 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? Lassi Kortela (02 Aug 2020 09:51 UTC)
Re: How would we use BCP 47 strings in a simple way? John Cowan (06 Aug 2020 04:30 UTC)

SRFI 29 (Localization) Lassi Kortela 30 Jul 2020 16:55 UTC

> Or multiple first-class types:
>
>    (locale (lang 'sr) (script 'Latn) (region 'MN) (variant 1349))
>
> You'd want predefined instances of the languages/scripts/regions/variants,
> and/or interning to assure (eq? (lang 'sr) (lang 'sr)).  This allows some
> optimizations with storing information (e.g. date/time and currency prefs)
> directly in these objects instead of requiring extra lookup tables.
>
> You'd then want utilities:
>
>    (bcp-47-tag->locale <str>)
>    (current-system-locale)

Just noticed that SRFI 29 (Localization) exists.
<https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-29/srfi-29.html>:

current-language -- Current ISO 639-1 language code as a symbol.

current-country -- Current ISO 3166-1 country code as a symbol.

current-locale-details -- Additional locale details as a list of
symbols.  This list may contain information about encodings or other
more specific information.