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Here are the consolidated answers to the original question from Emmanuel
Uren (76107.405@CompuServe.COM):

     We are in the process of internationalizing a "calendar" product in
     Windows (3.1.).  We have incorporated Hebrew dates and have elected to
     have the formats of the long dates change with locale just as the
     Gregorian dates do.  In other words, in French we have 25 Ellul 5773,
     in Portuguese we have 25 de Ellul de 5773.  Now we wonder if that is
     correct or should the format remain the same regardless of locale.
     And what is that format, in that case?  Help appreciated.  Thanks.

Jeff
INSOFT-L List Manager

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Sender: Nadine Kano <nadinek@microsoft.com>

There is a similar feature in MS Word (date formatting, that is).
You have to format the text as being in a particular language.
Then you can choose from a list box which format you want
among several locale-specific choices.  The language formats
are carried in all versions of the product.  So this all depends
on what you mean by "locale."  Is this the locale of the whole
program, or of part of a document?  I think you should give the
user a choice as to how they want their dates to look.  A
similar issue arises with currency.  You change from English
American to French.  Do you change all the '$' signs to 'F'
signs?  What about the currency exchange rate?


Sender: Dick Schoeller <schoeller@gooey.enet.dec.com>

If people care about Hebrew dates, they can probably grok them in Hebrew.  Why
not just get them into a Hebrew format and use that for all locales?

[Note from Jeff: Would someone please tell me what "grok" means?  Sounds
                 UNIX to me, but no man page for it.  Go ahead, Jeff,