WMS with locale

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Murty Maganti wrote:
> Question to all WMS experts
> 
>  
> 
> Does WMS request take locale specific formatted numbers or WMS responses 
> return locale specific formatted numbers. For example, for Spanish 
> culture, decimal separator is ‘,’ instead of ‘.’. If I run WMS service 
> on a machine with current locale as Spain, is GetCapabilties going to 
> return extents formatted to Spanish. Does it accept to send extents 
> formatted to Spanish culture and specify the culture as part of request. 
> I could not find any info in WMS cookbook.
> 
>  

Murty,

   There is no such direct support in Mapserver. Maybe a way to approach 
this would be to use mapscript with the wxs support 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wxs_mapscript) to parse input 
requests and modify the output xml to fit your needs.

Best Regards,

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Murty Maganti
> 


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