Re: glib time functions

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> We should do the best we can to support Islamic calendars and any
> other types of calendars that are in widespread use.  This may be
> technically hard, just as supporting languages with complex ligatures
> is a hard thing to do (Thai et al).  But we cannot just say "screw
> them"; remember that the world is not constrained to your own
> particular culture.

Not just hard; impossible.

We shouldn't pretend we can solve this problem; we are no magicians.

-- 
Robert Brady
robert suse co uk