[whatwg] Proposal: Locale Preferences API

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>
> Ping?
> 
> Mozilla would like to know if anyone else is interested or specially if 
> people are NOT interested. We would like to implement this and expose it 
> on the platform.
> 
> See:  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780953

I was just looking at this, actually. I filed the following bug to track 
it: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23517

Seems like a reasonable feature to me, FWIW.

See also:

   Notification of change to navigator.language (locale change)
   https://www.w3.org/bugzilla_public/show_bug.cgi?id=21289

   API to expose locale-specific settings
   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22679

   API to expose actual language of a node, to aid scripts doing 
   localisation and CJK editors during copy&paste and drag&drop
   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23512

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