And global states.
I remember the first time I was using gettext and wonder "wait, why do I have to switch the language for my whole program if I need it for just this request?" and realized that's because GNU gettext was made like that.
I remember the first time I was using gettext and wonder "wait, why do I have to switch the language for my whole program if I need it for just this request?" and realized that's because GNU gettext was made like that.
In fact, the “correct” values aren’t even portable. As far as I know, there is nothing resembling universal agreement on how to ask for what some systems call “C.UTF-8”. And, no offense to non-Americans, it’s fine [0] to spell one and one half “1,500”, but it is utterly broken to invoke this behavior by means of an environment variable that no one can quite agree on.
[0] OK, it really is ridiculous that the same string of Arabic numerals, commas and periods means different things in different places.