Re: Creating a New locale

[Fanen Ahua <afanen01 gmail com>]

I'm making progress, albeit slowly.

One snag I have encountered is how to specify the names of months. This language (Tiv) does not have specific names for months, we simply number the months counting from one to twelve, with January being "one" and December being "twelve". We however prepend a string which in english can be roughly translated as "month number".

If i do not include this pre-pended string, your calendar might look funny when displayed in Tiv: for instance 

"Friday 23 December 2009" 

will look like 

"Friday 23 Twelve 2009"

which is rather confusing.

Is there a way I can work around having to write near-full sentences as the names of the months in the locale definition?

Thanks in advance.

Fanen Ahua
Random quote: It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:34 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> The use of U+0331 or U+0332 should not depend on support in different
> applications, but on the actual orthography of the language. According
> to the Unicode standard, U+0331 is a bit shorter, while U+0332 is
> longer and connects on left and right.
>
> So the question to ask is: In printed material, if you put two of
> those underlined characters next to each other, should the underlines
> connect to each other and form one line, or should they be display as
> disconnected. If connected is the preferred way, U+0332 it is. If
> disconnected is the preferred way, U+0331 it is.
>
> Feel free to contact me in case of other character doubts.
>
> Roozbeh
> ...who represents GNOME in the Unicode Consortium, among other things
>
> 2009/1/21 Fanen Ahua <afanen01 gmail com>:
> > U+0331 looks right indeed. Evolution displayed u+0331 correctly.
> >
> > Thanks, will keep you posted.
> > picFanen Ahua
> > Random quote: Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:26 -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> >> > U+0331 COMBINING MACRO BELOW: fe̱ed fo̱od
> >> > U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE: fe̲ed fo̲od
> >>
> >> Receiving my own message back again, Thunderbird had problems with
> >> U+0332 and U+0332 also doesn't work in "view source" for the web page,
> >> whereas U+0331 works fine for both.  So I think U+0331 should be what
> >> you want, assuming it looks like the character you're looking for.
> >>
> >> peace
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >
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