-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eike Rathke wrote: > I created a new locale data audit document, 320kb > http://l10n.openoffice.org/nonav/i18n_framework/cldr/LocaleDataAudit_OOo202.html
Regarding en-GB (British English), and probably the same applies to en-IE, the only issue is over the first day of the week. I don't really know how to resolve this and do not personally have any preference whether this should be Sunday or Monday. Based on previous discussion and some informal investigation it appeared that the UK has both in common usage. I wrote to Dr Stockton at Surrey University - he has done research on the subject and can offer arguments and historical perspectives supporting both views. "There are some things in the UK for which, overall, we really do not use a standard, and this is one of them." Also: "Certainly we have historically started the week on Sunday (unlike, it seems, the Creator who apparently chose Monday); but the working week starts on Monday." He cites BS EN 28601:1992 which is based on ISO 8601 first edition, which states that the first day of the week is Monday and adopts the ISO algorithm for week numbering. I have also written to the BSI, but have not had a response yet. Given that both Sunday and Monday appear to be in common usage, why don't we consider making the first day of the week user configurable within the options settings? We could then default to the ISO standard (Monday) and those who prefer Sunday could simply set their choice under options settings? David. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2eB0gH46HTEjeiURAiN0AJ0Wq9Tq8KZygesbruImMgupxQdRWACdE51h +hu0Sj1pWQHK0OM3RJfSQNA= =tDdO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
