Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak lingonborough com>]

Hello,

Thank you for your response. Your feedback will be valuable because
it seems to me you are the potential actual user of this feature.

Would you be able to test my copr repository [1] and see how it
works in your language, what started working correctly out of the
box and what works worse? Of course, security must be taken into
account: preferably test it on a separate virtual machine. Or even
on a live DVD. :-)

Some comments below:

19.04.2017 11:06 Fòram na Gàidhlig <fios foramnagaidhlig net> wrote:
> From my language's point of view. The CLDR approach is what looks the
> most sensible.

I think I agree with you because I'm trying to follow CLDR but which
approach did you mean here?

> Displaying "of April" as a standalone date would look
> very weird in my language, and having the 'genitive' form displayed as
> nominative would be the lesser of two evils.

Of course using genitive where nominative is required is definitely bad.
But do you mean that you'd prefer %OB to be genitive and %B to be
nominative? Would you prefer as a translator to rework all date formats
which display day and month, like "%d %B", to "%d %OB" or would you
prefer to rework only those which display month standalone? Which are
more frequent? BTW, CLDR does not say anything about nl_langinfo()
nor strftime().

Unfortunately, there is no solution which will automagically display
the correct form whenever it finds %B.

> For example:
>
> June = An t-Ògmhios

I'll use this example to explain that this would be printed by "%OB".

> 18 June = 18mh dhen Ògmhios

And this one would need "%dmh %B".

> So, depending on how it's coded, that would give us "dhen Ògmhios" or
> "mh dhen Ògmhios" if the 'genitive' was used as a standalone date.

Of course, displaying genitive where nominative is requires is not
what I want. Some applications would need fixes but probably this
would be less changes than the opposite solution.

I will appreciate if you point me to a specific application which
will start displaying dates incorrectly. I'm aware of about 5 such
applications already. For some of them I've prepared patches already.

Also, if possible, I'll appreciate even more if you could be able
to compare this with the solutions in OS X and BSD. Unfortunately,
I can tell already that FreeBSD does not support gd_GB.

Regards,

Rafal


[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rluzynski/genitive/