[Ocaml-i18n] locales in Camomile and OCamlI18n

[Benjamin Geer]

I've been looking at the locale support in Camomile, and at Matthieu 
Sozeau's OCamlI18n library, and I have a few comments and questions.

About Camomile:

Yoriyuki, what are your plans for the use of locales in Camomile?  Where 
did those IBM locale files come from, and what software knows how to 
parse and use them fully?  Maintaining locale data in files rather than 
in source code seems sensible to me.  I would be interested in working 
on a project to handle locales this way in Caml.

About OCamlI18n:

Many locales use different characters for digits.  In Arabic, either 
Arabic or Hindi digits may be used.  So there needs to be a way for a 
locale-specific number formatter to choose the right kind of digits, 
according to the locale but also according to the user's preference; 
this of course applies to dates as well.

I'm trying to understand how the 'calendar' structures are meant to be 
used; nothing in the library seems to use them.  If the goal is to make 
it possible for people to plug in their own calendar implementations, 
why not make Calendar a class type rather than a module?

Ben