Re: Hello and a a possible bug in i18n

["Mauricio López" <mlopezqc gmail com>]

In a matter of fact I live in Cuba, and I think there is no locale for my country available yet. Here we have a FLOSS community and I'm thinking on make a group to create our own locale, based on our country settings. Is it possible that, if we make it, it can be available for every system? The point is that we want to make the best effort and make it worth.

Can anybody help us by giving us some resources and tips about how to do it and who to contact to make it widely available?

Regards

2007/1/1, Carlos Perelló Marín < carlos gnome org>:

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Leonardo Fontenelle escribió:
> The locale data is part of glibc. In their FAQ, they say "If the glibc
> you are using comes from a complete operating system distribution, you
> should report bugs to that distribution project first." However, there
> is already a report in glibc's bugzilla similar to yours:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2692 . You could
> post a comment there, saying the same applies to Spain.

It's not the same thing. in Spain, time is handled in 24 hours so glibc
is correct.

Mauricio, if you want to use different settings than the one defined in
your country (Spain), you should set LC_TIME to a locale that works as
you want it to work.

Cheers.

>
> Leonardo Fontenelle
>
> 2006/12/30, Mauricio López <mlopezqc gmail com>:
>> I recently join to the list and I hope to make good contributions to the
>> community. But I've had a doubt since a long time and is about the i18n in
>> spanish. In Gnome, the clock applet only shows 12 hours format if the
>> language supports it, and in the locales isn't specified that spanish
>> language supports it. Actually in real life, a lot of people that speak
>> spanish uses the 12 hour format and uses the same strings A.M and P.M.
>>
>> In my Linux box I hacked  the  file /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_ES (on an
>> Ubuntu system), copied some things from /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US and
>> after regenereted locales. Voila! I had 12 hour support. Of course I did it
>> 'cause I have some technical knowledge and a bit of luck, but for non
>> technical users it may be really annoying to use 24 hour format when they
>> are used to 12 hour format.
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