Thanks for your clarification, Tom. What you wrote is exactly what I meant. See also more comments below:
20.04.2017 13:05 Tom Tryfonidis <tomt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a feeling that the use of nominative and genitive cases on the topic > is the main reason for misunderstandings. We need to focus whether we should > use %B for "full date" form or not, as this is the common factor for all > languages now. > > Greek translations (i assume other affected languages too) already use %B for > "full date" form, and a proposed solution to use %B for the "standalone" form > will create an unneeded regression for these languages. That's true: "%B" is used because there is no better format specifier. And this produces the nominative case because there is no way to generate the genitive case. The same in many other languages. > So, to make things easier for everyone, i agree that it would be better to > use %B for "full date" form and %OB for "standalone" form (the chances to use > the alternative %OB format for the affected languages are low and limited only > to specific use cases, e.g. GNOME Calendar uses standalone form for > Week/Month/Year views). Of course, there will be a (hopefully) limited number of applications which will need minor fixes and I'm already preparing patches for them even if it is too early: - to prove that the number of the applications is low, - to prove that the changes are minor, - to provide the fix for what I might potentially break, - to let the people see the result already. Regards, Rafal _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
