Re: [l10n-dev] Locales with LocaleGen and CLDR
Alberto great, let me know if you have any issues with the tools. hmm, never came across a 4 day week before, is a new calendar type required here also ? Peter Alberto Escudero Pascual wrote: Hi Peter, I have now over half a dozen of locales of people that have used the http://www.it46.se/localegen tool that we will like to send into OOo and CLDR. I will try to get up and running the "converter tool" from the CVS and send you the locales in "cldr" format. I have one issue regarding "Igbo", their calendar has 4 days in a week. How should i address their calendar both in OOo and CLDR? If any other groups want to submit new locales please refer to the "Localgen", i will try to push them into CLDR if we get them via ther tool before Wednesday 13.00 PM (GMT) next week Alberto - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [l10n-dev] Locales with LocaleGen and CLDR
Hi Alberto, On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:28:45 +0100, Alberto Escudero Pascual wrote: > I have one issue regarding "Igbo", their calendar has 4 days in a week. > How should i address their calendar both in OOo and CLDR? That would need a new calendar implementation. Currently it can't be handled. For the locale data format alone it doesn't matter, it is just a sequence of days, but apart from the calendar there are probably many places in the code that simply assume 7 days a week. Changing that would be quite some effort, I guess. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [l10n-dev] Locales with LocaleGen and CLDR
Hi Eike, I have checked the .dtd and the element LC_CALENDAR accepts more than one calendar using unoid="" In theory i can add a new calendar with four days in a week right? See example: 1 Eke Eke 2 Orie Orie 3 Afo Afo 4 Nkwo Nkwo ... Of course, it is just syntactically correct but "useless" as OOo native code does not use it. right? Alberto On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:48 +0100, Eike Rathke wrote: > Hi Alberto, > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:28:45 +0100, Alberto Escudero Pascual wrote: > > > I have one issue regarding "Igbo", their calendar has 4 days in a week. > > How should i address their calendar both in OOo and CLDR? > > That would need a new calendar implementation. Currently it can't be > handled. For the locale data format alone it doesn't matter, it is just > a sequence of days, but apart from the calendar there are probably many > places in the code that simply assume 7 days a week. Changing that would > be quite some effort, I guess. > > Eike > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [l10n-dev] Locales with LocaleGen and CLDR
Hi Alberto, On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 18:03:43 +0100, Alberto Escudero Pascual wrote: > I have checked the .dtd and the element LC_CALENDAR accepts more than > one calendar using unoid="" Yes, that is used in several locales, for example ar_*, he_IL, ja_JP > In theory i can add a new calendar with four days in a week right? Correct, that's what I was referring in my previous mail with "For the locale data format alone it doesn't matter, it is just a sequence of days". > See example: > > > > > > > Of course, it is just syntactically correct but "useless" as OOo native > code does not use it. right? Yep. As there is no implementation for the calendar all code trying to use it should fall back to the Gregorian calendar. Whether that is done at every place should be QA'ed though.. Btw, is it only Igbo that uses this type of calendar, or are there also other locales? Is there a general name for it, like Gregorian for the Christian calendar? Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [l10n-dev] Locales with LocaleGen and CLDR
Eike wrote: > Btw, is it only Igbo that uses this type of calendar, or are there also other > locales? I don't know who else uses a four day week. There is archaic calender system that had 14 days to the week. Another archaic, and equally obscure calender had either 13 day weeks, or 13 day months. The Baha'i Calender has 19 months in a year, with each month being 19 days long. The Thelemic calender does not use months, or days, going by the position of the Sun, Moon, and ascendant. Years are in 21 year cycles, starting from 1904. [Including that in OOo would be an interesting challenge for somebody.] xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.
