On Wednesday 06 August 2014 12:49:54 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Thiago Macieira <thi...@macieira.org> wrote: > > I know we process the CLDR data from unicode.org, but a rule like "use > > this on day 1 and use that on other days" is definitely not part of Qt. > > Most likely, we failed to parse and will need to add an exception. > > Note that it's not about "1" being special and then "other days". It's > about how the ordinal number is spelled out when written > out/pronounced, like the English 1st, 2nd, 3rd. So it's ":a" for 1 and > 2 (and 21,22,31,32,..) because it's "första" and "andra" (ends in > 'a'), but then it's ":e" for other numerals ("tredje", "fjärde" etc - > ends in 'e').
Maybe we should convince the Royal Swedish Academy to adopt the Norwegian rules. :-) Ordinals in Norwegian simply get a period appended. først 1. andre 2. tredje 3. $ LC_ALL=nb_NO.UTF-8 date to. 07. aug. 11:43:47 -0300 2014 -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@hohndel.org http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface