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<title>CLiki: Acclimation</title>
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<span class="hidden">CLiki - Acclimation</span>
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<div id="content"><div id="content-area"><div id="article-title">Acclimation</div><div id="article">This project is meant to provide tools for internationalizing Common
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Lisp programs.<p>One important aspect of <a href="internationalization.html" class="category">internationalization</a> is of course the language
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used in error messages, <a href="documentation.html" class="internal">documentation</a> strings etc. But with this
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project we will provide tools for all other aspects of
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internationalization as well. To get an idea of what we are aiming
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for, here is a partial list of other tools we are thinking of
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providing:<p><ul>
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<li>Showing dates. This is a complex issue because it not only
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involves the format of a date, but also the precision. For
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example, it is probably not useful to provide more precision for
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the <a href="time.html" class="internal">time</a> an email was sent than down to the minute.<p></li>
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<li>Measuring weight. There are three important aspects here, namely
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the type of object that is being measured, the unit to be used,
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and the precision. For instance, in the UK, for measuring the
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weight of people, some people like to use the units "stones" and
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"pounds" for this purpose, and it is not useful to give more than
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one or two digits of precision for the pounds.<p></li>
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<li>Measuring temperature. The same three aspects are involved as
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with weight <a href="units.html" class="category">units</a>. Some people might want to use degrees
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Fahrenheit for measuring oven temperature, and it is not useful to
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have more precision than 10 degrees. The same person might want
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to show the temperature of liquid nitrogen in Kelvin.<p></li>
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<li>Names of physical quantities. Even if English is used, some
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people (including myself) do not like names of physical quantities
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that tie them to a particular unit of measure, such as voltage,
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mileage, amperage, wattage, etc. In addition, such quantities can
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become ambiguous, because there might be several quantities that
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use the same unit, such as length, height, width, or distance. We
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intend to provide tools that allow programmers to configure what
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names of quantities are used.<p></li>
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<li>Etc.
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Repository: <a href="https://github.com/robert-strandh/Acclimation">https://github.com/robert-strandh/Acclimation</a><p>License: <a href="FreeBSD.html" class="category">FreeBSD</a></div></div>
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<div id="footer" class="buttonbar"><ul><li><a href="Acclimation.html">Current version</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cliki.net/site/history?article=Acclimation">History</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cliki.net/site/backlinks?article=Acclimation">Backlinks</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cliki.net/site/edit-article?title=Acclimation&from-revision=3801583431">Edit</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cliki.net/site/edit-article?create=t">Create</a></li></ul></div>
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