Collation implementation

[Paolo Bonzini]

Hello.  I am the mantainer of GNU Smalltalk and I am writing a Smalltalk
class library for internationalization and localization, whose scope and
breadth is similar to that of libstdc++'s locales implementation.

In particular, I'm facing the problem of accessing more than one locale at
the same time through different instances of the `facet' classes. My first
implementation has been to use glibc's data files and algorithms
(especially WRT string collation, for which I cannot simply use
nl_langinfo), but that is not a good choice because the data file format
is subject to change, and the algorithms themselves are in flux.

I have downloaded libstdc++ but that part of the library is not complete.
I'd be grateful to the person/people who are coding it if they wrote me so
that we could discuss and implement a common strategy.

Thanks in advance.

Paolo Bonzini

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