Yes, I had eggs on my eyes, there's an "i18n.language" property, which we can easily pass on to the locale aware date formatting...
Thanks Tim! On 03/18/2013 05:49 PM, Tim Peeters wrote: > Hello, > > I implemented i18n in the Ubuntu UI toolkit. It is simply a binding to > gettext, and i18n.language is initialized from the environment > variable LANGUAGE. The reason that we use this and not the built-in > internationalization from Qt is that we want to use gettext tools, > including the translation features provided by launchpad. > > So try exporting LANGUAGE in the terminal from which you run your app > (or set it in the QtCreator Run environment if you use that). If I am > not mistaken, the format of the LANGUAGE parameter is the same for > gettext and Qt.locale(). For example, for Dutch I use LANGUAGE=nl_NL. > > Unfortunately the i18n/l10n in our SDK is not yet well-documented, but > I will be working on that. > > Greets, > > Tim. > >> Hi, >> >> I think it would be good if we could decide on how to do date and time >> formatting. The problem is that Qt.formateDate()-family of functions does >> not seem to handle language changes will the application is running. >> >> Frank pointed out the Qt.locale() >> (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtqml/qml-qtquick2-locale.html) function >> which returns a js object with properties and functions capable of >> formatting dates and times. >> >> The Qt.locale() function can take one parameter, a locale name specified in >> the following format "language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]". >> >> With some luck we could use Qt.locale() together with >> i18n.language-property, depending on how the property's value looks like. >> >> For example: Qt.locale(i18n.language).formateDate('MMMM') >> >> Are there any SDK developer who can confirm if this is the case? >> >> On the desktop, i18n.language was just an empty string >> >> -- >> Mario Boikov > -- Cyblogic / Frank Mertens Dornierstr. 19c 82110 Germering gplus.to/frankencode frankencode@freenode -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-touch-coreapps Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-touch-coreapps More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
