Re: Contents of gnome-i18n digest...

[Sebastián Maturana <sebamaturana hotmail com>]

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>Subject: gnome-i18n digest, Vol 1 #1348 - 1 msg
>Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:00:06 -0500
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>    1. Re: Translation issues with strftime (Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= 
>Simonsen)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:00:20 +0100
>From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
>To: Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk>
>Cc: gnome-i18n@gnome.org
>Subject: Re: Translation issues with strftime
>
>On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:06:30PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote:
> > Danilo Segan <danilo@gnome.org> writes:
> >
> > > Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> writes:
> > >>
> > >> Unfortunately, %e is a bad solution. I don't need an extra space:
> > >>
> > >>   tir 02. dec
> > >>   tir  2. dec
> > >>
> > >> I just want "tir 2. dec".
> > >
> > > I think that provided formats use space padding because of alignment:
> > > dates and times have previously been used in table listings (like 'ls
> > > -l') where it is very important that all the dates align the same.
> >
> > Yeah, that is clearly the case. The facilities in strftime are
> > inadequate to deal with the situation today. We've known that for some
> > time. I've complained about it to Keld Simonsen who is part of the ISO
> > group responsible for the standard, but I don't know whether things
> > will ever change.
>
>Well, a revision can be undertaken. I do agree with the need for
>a day number without a leading space. How should it be done?
>Well, you can actually do it to day with
>
>alt_digits 
>"0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31"
>
>And then using the %Od format specifier.
>
> > Another related problem is that it is not possible to get the date
> > capitalised in a specific way. I've heard of a problem with KMail (I
> > think) that the standard email introduction
> >
> >   Monday, November 13, Zorglub wrote:
> >
> > is impossible to get right because the Danish dates spell the weekday
> > uncapitalised:
> >
> >   mandag, 13. november skrev Zorglub:
>
>I would rather like:
>
>    mandag den 13. november skrev Zorglub:
>
>But both formats should be possible.
> >
> > There's no way to tell strftime that the weekday should be
> > capitalised.
>
>That should also be possible, to say "use capitalization on the first
>letter". Any suggestions on how it could be done?
>This should apply to both month names and weekday names, and both
>abbreviated and long forms. So maybe a general "make it uppercase"
>flag could be used ("+" maybe?).
>
>Best regards
>keld
>
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