Swedish dates [was: Re: test binaries for Beta 5]

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Aug 6 10:36:26 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Joakim Bygdell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Day names should NOT end with “en” when the abbreviated name is used.
> > > >
> > > > I went back and looked at how the dive list looked in V4.1, “Sön, jul,
> > 6” which is a correctly abbreviated date.
> > > > in the latest beta binary it states “Sönen den 6:e jul” which is
> > completely wrong.
> >
> > Would "Sön 6:e jul" by acceptable?
> 
> That would be more correct yes, unless the “:e” is applied to all numbers
> then it will be wrong.

That's what Qt appears to be doing... hmm, not sure how to teach it not to
do that (and looking at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator#Swedish it seems that Qt is
doing it wrong, anyway)

> “Sön 6 jul, 2014” will work in all cases.

I don't think I can easily tell Qt not to use ordinals here. Even though
the wiki above seems to say that that's preferred for dates.

Thiago?

/D




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