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

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak lingonborough com>]

14.05.2017 15:41 Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> wrote:
> [...]
> There https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775548 filed against
> gnome-calendar too which is relevant to this conversation.

Thank you Alexandre for your attention. This bug is also interesting
for me but I must say it is not directly relevant to this conversation.
This conversation is about grammatical cases [1] which AFAIK are
not used in French but obligatorily required in some languages.
Bug 775548 is about upper/lower case of the letter, especially
the initial letter.

> Can someone
> have a look and help move it forward?

As I already wrote, there are two solutions: one is to implement
this feature in glib2 or even better in glibc but it may take years
before it will be designed, accepted, tested, etc., and another
is to apply a patch to gnome-calendar. The patch is almost ready
and needs just some minor fixes but the idea of the patch was
then rejected. If I understand correctly, the main problem is
that in some languages it is incorrect to uppercase the first
letter of the month even if there is nothing before the month name
(e.g., when the month name is standalone).

Regards,

Rafal


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case