2011/11/19 Eike Rathke <er...@redhat.com> > Hi, > > some Slavic languages and Russian and Greek (afaik) use possessive > genitive case month names when used in conjunction with the day of > month. For this I added support in the i18n framework and number > formatter. There's a new optional element <GenitiveMonths> within the > <Calendar> element of the i18npool/source/localedata/data/*.xml files, > following the <MonthsOfYear> element. Its content is similar to the > already existing <MonthsOfYear> element and has <DefaultAbbrvName> and > <DefaultFullName> elements. If the <GenitiveMonths> element is not > specified, the content of <MonthsOfYear> will be taken. For technical > details see also > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd > > If localizers hurry up ;-) and provide patches to their locales' data > files you can get it in before the 3.5 branch-off. > > In the past for some locales it was decided to use possessive month > names instead of month nouns because usually they are displayed along > with the day of month. This should be changed, effectively by renaming > the <MonthsOfYear> element to <GenitiveMonths> and inserting a new > <MonthsOfYear> element before with month nouns. > > In a recent build you can check use of month noun versus possessive > month in the number formatter if you compiled your new locale data with > a make in i18npool (note: execute make twice to be sure the new data is > available, it seems that due to some shortcoming in the current makefile > setup some dependencies are missing). If the format code contains month > (MMM or MMMM) and day of month (D or DD) the possessive name is > displayed, else (no D or DD code) the noun is displayed. > > Where exactly is this going to be used -- Calc's date-formatted cells, Writer's date-fields, ...? And will it be strictly one way or the other, or will users be able to choose which form (nominative/inflected) they want in a given context? I ask because in Estonian both forms (and more :P ) could be used, depending on sentence.
Regards, Mihkel of the Estonian l10n team -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
