In Date::Language::*, I mentioned that I need to create some Date::Language modules since most of the work is already done.

Take a look at my old (extremely ugly & improperly encoded) script for the Greek example. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
my ($tsec,$tmin,$thour,$tmday,$tmon,$tyear,$twd,$tyd,$tds) = localtime
+(time);
my (@tweekdays) = (
'Κυριακή',
'Δευτέρα',
'Τρίτη',
'Τετάρτη',
'Πέμπτη',
'Παρασκευή',
'Σάββατο'
);
my (@tmonths) = (
'Ιανουαρίου',
'Φεβρουαρίου',
'Μαρτίου',
'Απριλίου',
'Μαϊου',
'Ιουνίου',
'Ιουλίου',
'Αυγούστου',
'Σεπτεμβρίου',
'Οκτωβρίου',
'Νοεμβρίου',
'Δεκεμβρίου'
);
my ($tweekday) = $tweekdays[$twd];
my ($tmonth) = $tmonths[$tmon];
$tyear += 1900;
my ($tdate) = "$tweekday, $tmday $tmonth, $tyear";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "$tdate\n";

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It displays the date like this: Παρασκευή 25 Οκτωβρίου 2002.
In the web page that calls the script I have the following HTML:
<html lang="el">
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-12
+53">

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Will using the proper unicode be enough? Or will I need to force a locale as well? I may not even be asking the right questions!

In reply to Unicode & Locales by Mr. Muskrat

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