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Locales and Unicode interact with each other in unpleasant ways.
One possible solution would be to adopt/support ICU:
- http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/
+ http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html
=head2 Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals