Per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140891&msg=47 it mentions that the glibc locale policy is that am_pm information will be blank if the country does not official support AM/PM to signify the time.
This leads to problems of programs allowing to show the time in a 12-hour format while nothing shows whether it's AM or PM. Personally, I would feel that the glibc locales should always have the localised am_pm information and let the end-user choose. However, per Libc policy, you would simply remove the option for 12-hour/24-hour time and simply check if "am_pm" is empty or not. Simos On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:30, Christian Rose wrote: > ons 2005-02-02 klockan 08:19 +0000 skrev Mark McLoughlin: > > In gnome-panel, translators can translate the strings "24" and > > "24-hour" to "12"/"24" and "12-hour"/"24-hour" depending on whether a 12 > > or 24 hour clock is the norm in that locale. > > > > Unfortunately, its easy to miss the fact that you're not supposed to > > translate these values like other strings, so you get the likes of: > > > > msgid "24-hour" > > msgstr "24 sata" > > > > Which neither the panel nor gconftool-2 can understand. > > > > There are comments in the po file explaining the situation: > > > > #. Translators: the only valid values for this are "12-hour" and "24-hour" > > #: applets/clock/clock.schemas.in.h:4 > > > > But I guess its easy to miss that. I don't have any other ideas how to > > make this foolproof, though. > > Really, translators should be more careful, but perhaps stressing the > fact even more in the comment and making the comment slightly more > verbose and explanatory would help somewhat: > > /* Translators: This controls whether the GNOME panel clock should > display time in 24 hour mode or 12 hour mode by default. The only > valid values for this are "24-hour" and "12-hour". If your locale > uses 24 hour time notation, translate this to "24-hour". If your > locale uses 12 hour time notation with am/pm, translate this to > "12-hour". > > Do NOT translate this into anything else than "24-hour" or > "12-hour". For example, if you translate this to "24 sata" or > anything else that isn't "24-hour" or "12-hour", things will > not work. */ > > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
