Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multiple locales: Use the correct date and time formats (bug 10496, 23724).

[TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki at linet dot gr dot jp>]

Hello Rafal,

From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multiple locales: Use the correct date and time formats (bug 10496, 23724).
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:58:39 +0100 (CET)

> > There is not such a usage in glibc, indeeed, but according to CLDR,
> > it seems to be used the indicator above.
> > 
> > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/verify/dates/sq.html
> 
> I am looking at this page:
> 
> http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/sq/Gregorian/
> 
> and indeed, this does not mention PD and MD but does mention "p.d." and
> "m.d.".  So I believe these shortcuts are known in Albania, this is not
> anything artificially invented by glibc developers.

OK.  I agreed.

> > On the other hand, there is PD/MD indicator as am_pm in sq_AL locale
> > in glibc.  I do not know whether this is commonly used, but parhaps
> > this may not be a problem.
> 
> Yes.  I believe it has been added for good reasons.  Also nobody
> complained about it so I am not going to touch this.  Also I think
> that PD and MD are good for clock widgets, "e paradites" and "e pasdites"
> may be too long to fit in the limited screen space.
> 
> The bugs I am trying to fix are about the missing AM/PM indicator and
> about wrong date format (that's spotted by myself, mixing numerical
> format with words looks very suspicious), there was no complain about how
> the AM/PM indicator looks.
> 
> I have few Albanian friends and I have asked them for some feedback.
> They are generally OK with these changes I'm proposing here regarding
> their language.  Also I hope that if I do anything wrong they will
> contact me quickly.

Agreed.

Regards,
TAMUKI Shoichi