Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Rafal Luzynski
(BTW, here is the date formatted incorrectly because the bug is so common in Linux systems including web services:) Dnia 20 kwiecień 2017 o 01:39 Piotr Drąg napisał(a): > > > 2017-04-20 1:08 GMT+02:00 Rafal Luzynski : > > 19.04.2017 16:19 David Sapienza wrote: > >> So I agree with fios: I think

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Piotr Drąg
2017-04-20 1:08 GMT+02:00 Rafal Luzynski : > 19.04.2017 16:19 David Sapienza wrote: >> So I agree with fios: I think that it is better to use the "O" >> modifier (%OB) for the genitive form (in the languages that uses >> it) while we should keep the %B for the nominative form. > > OK. Again I don'

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Rafal Luzynski
19.04.2017 16:19 David Sapienza wrote: > In the Italian and French languages the nominative form is used in the full > context date too. I'm afraid we are running into misunderstanding here. If I used the terms "genitive" and "nominative" I used them for simplicity only. The fully correct terms s

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Rafal Luzynski
Hello, Thank you for your response. Your feedback will be valuable because it seems to me you are the potential actual user of this feature. Would you be able to test my copr repository [1] and see how it works in your language, what started working correctly out of the box and what works worse?

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Милош Поповић
I can only agree on this. Serbian, as well as other Slavic/Eastern European languages use genitive and it would be great to inplement it in glibc. Miloš 19.04.2017. 16.46, "Piotr Drąg" је написао/ла: 2017-04-19 0:19 GMT+02:00 Rafal Luzynski : > Hello, > > I was told that GNOME i18n is the right

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Piotr Drąg
2017-04-19 0:19 GMT+02:00 Rafal Luzynski : > Hello, > > I was told that GNOME i18n is the right place to discuss this issue > because it gathers translators from more languages than any other > place in this part of the net. The problem has been reported to GNOME > bugzilla as bug 749206 [1] but in

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread David Sapienza via gnome-i18n
In the Italian and French languages the nominative form is used in the full context date too. In languages where the genitive form is used in full context, it is often written in nominative form (as an abbreviation) and generally in these cases it can't be considered an error (it won't break th

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-19 Thread Fòram na Gàidhlig
>From my language's point of view. The CLDR approach is what looks the most sensible. Displaying "of April" as a standalone date would look very weird in my language, and having the 'genitive' form displayed as nominative would be the lesser of two evils. For example: June = An t-Ògmhios 18 June