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------- Additional comments from e...@openoffice.org Fri Aug 21 13:31:12 +0000 2009 ------- Please note that patterns may contain calendar and native numbering information, also mixed representations within one pattern are possible, eras, and some specific handling that arose of the need to mimic Excel display formatting behavior when using such patterns. I strongly doubt ICU handles all that. For reference you may take a look at the number formatter implementation in svtools/source/numbers/, specifically zformat.cxx SvNumberformat::ImpGetDateOutput(), SvNumberformat::ImpGetTimeOutput() and SvNumberformat::ImpGetDateTimeOutput(). I also don't see the need why we should replace the current formatting with ICU; instead, we should obtain the necessary data from ICU where possible. We then could add some features such as possessive month names, possibly call ICU where the OOo i18n framework doesn't have a solution yet, and replace the duplicated i18npool calendar implementations with the ICU calendar. However, I think obtaining locale data such as day and month names and their abbreviations from ICU and merge it into OOo locale data layer if not defined in OOo locale data should be one of the first steps, so we can get rid of duplicated data definitions in OOo. In this context you may be interested in two older surveys we did, comparing OOo and CLDR locale data. The data probably is outdated, but there are some comments why we kept OOo specific locale data in favor over CLDR locale data in some cases. http://l10n.openoffice.org/nonav/i18n_framework/cldr/LocaleDataAudit_OOo_CLDR.html from 2005 http://l10n.openoffice.org/nonav/i18n_framework/cldr/LocaleDataAudit_OOo202.html from 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@l10n.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
