| Re: FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT non/sense [message #177024 is a reply to message #177022] |
Thu, 16 February 2012 17:02   |
M. Strobel
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Am 16.02.2012 17:32, schrieb Thomas Mlynarczyk:
> Denis McMahon schrieb:
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:22:08 +0100, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
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>>> On the other hand I seriously question the concept of a server side
>>> locale in the context of the world wide web. If locale must be, then it
>>> ought to be the client's locale.
>>
>> Perhaps, but that just means you should use the client's locale when validating
>> things like dates and numbers on the server. Of course this assumes you know the
>> client's locale.
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> True. The only reliable way to do this would be to simply ask the client and then
> maybe store their locale in a cookie. My point was that any "server locale" is
> completely useless since there is in general no reliable correlation between the
> server's and the client's location.
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> Greetings,
> Thomas
>
That's a good point, the question about the client side locale seems to be unsolved,
but not discussed very often. You could use the HTTP Accept-Language header, but I
did not see it mentioned very often in the web.
/Str.
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