R.J. Baars <r.j.ba...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > A different question: what about dates like '08-07-2014'or '2014/08/07' > One cannot tell which is month and which is day, isn't it? Are both > options considered then? And what of notations '04/05/06'; it is > completely unclear which is month, year and day. > > (All cases actually are in source texts ...) > > Ruud
Hi Ruud In French, I detect at least wrong dates such as: * Jeudi 29 août 2014: it's not Jeudi (=Thursday) but Vendredi (=Friday) * Jeudi 29/08/2014 or Jeudi 28/8/2014 * Jeudi 2014/08/29 or Jeudi 2014/8/28 The 3rd one (yyyy/mm/dd) is uncommon in French, but it's not ambiguous so I handle it. The French date checker currently ignores dates such as: * 08/28/2014: American date mm/dd/yyyy, which are not used in French anyway. Almost nobody would understand such a formatted date in French as I suspect in most other languages other than American English. * 08/28/14: 2 digits for year is deemed too ambiguous. I Is it year 2014 or 1914 or even something else? I could put a heuristic such as year 1x or 1x is more like 201x and year 9x is more likely 199x. But I'd rather avoid false positives caused by such guesses. * abbreviated days or months. They are uncommon in French unlike in English dates. But I may change my mind about them. Regards Dominique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
