Hello Hugh, >> The locale "en" just contains the basic settings for all english >> speaking countries. >> > > That is a joke, yes? > > Look at the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date > and specifically at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#m.2Fd.2Fyy_.28month.2C_day.2C_year.29 > > Hmmm. Canada and the US (though Canada use a variety of forms) plus a couple > of minor states. Not really a majority by country count. > > I hoped that qooxdoo, being a European based product, would not fall into the > trap of being US-centric. > Don't worry about qooxdoo being US-centric. The data files we use for localizing date and time formats come from the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) of the Unicode consortium. We don't maintain them ourselfes. Maybe the CLDR is US-centric :-) ? > Anyway, setting up en_GB works fine. > > There is still the issue of the short date format not being shown in the > localization page of the Showcase. And en_GB should be added to the list of > locales available for viewing on that page. > > This all came about because of wanting to use the DateChooserButton on a > dialog, and finding the date was in the wrong format. That raises another > issue - that DateChooserButton always treats the date in the locale-specific > "short" format. So I've raised > http://bugzilla.qooxdoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339 requesting an enhancement to > make the date format specifable for the date chooser. > I will have a look at the bug and the showcase.
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