On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rick Measham wrote:
> sub format_datetime {
> $dt = shift;
> return sprintf("%s%s%s%s%s%s %s%s%s%s%s%s",
> japanese_number($dt->year),
> 'japanese_for_year',
> japanese_number($dt->month),
> 'japanese_for_month',
> japanese_number($dt->day),
> 'japanese_for_day',
>
> japanese_number($dt->hour),
> 'japanese_for_hour',
> japanese_number($dt->minute),
> 'japanese_for_minute',
> japanese_number($dt->second),
> 'japanese_for_second',
> );
> }
>
> Basically, my reason for thinking this is a ::format rather than a
> ::language issue is that there are very few instances where the
> representations of numerals is not the hindu-arabic forms. To put numerals
> into ::Language modules would mean the overhead of 'translating' each
> numeral whenever its output.
In fact, the Japanese (and Chinese) very often do use Arabic numerals.
There are _also_ characters for numbers which are sometimes used.
What Daisuke (that's your personal name, right?) is suggesting is a way to
display a date and time with Arabic numerals followed by the characters
saying what those numerals mean, if I'm following correctly.
However, it might be good to have a method in DateTime::Format::Japanese
that returns the character representation of the Arabic numerals as well.
Then of course, I start wondering if we couldn't share this with the
Chinese language formatter. And in fact, I suspect that the Japanese and
Chinese date formats would be identical.
-dave
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