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

[Joakim Bygdell]

On 06 Aug 2014, at 22:10, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 09:44:21PM +0200, Joakim Bygdell wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:24:56PM -0300, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 06 August 2014 10:36:26 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>>>>> “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?
>>>> 
>>>> Looks like the QLocale data is faulty somehow.
>>>> 
>>>> I asked the bot on IRC and it replied:
>>>> 
>>>> 14:40 <+thiago> qout: { QLocale l("sv-SE"); qDebug() <<
>>> l.toString(QDate(2014,
>>>> 8, 1), QLocale::LongFormat); }
>>>> 14:40 <+qout> "fredagen den 1:e augusti 2014"
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> The format appears to try to build all ordinals with ':e' which I have now
>>> learned is wrong :-/
>>> 
>>> /D
>>> 
>> A correct parsing rule is a bit tricky as it must include some exeptions.
>> Dates ending on 1 or 2 should have ":a" after except if the second to last
>> is 1 then they should have ":e" as should all dates ending on any number
>> except 1 or 2.
> 
> Yeah, I decided to go with the official suggestion (according to the wiki)
> to not use ordinals for dates :-)
> 
> Did you have a chance to try the DMG that I made for you? Do the dates
> look sane?

Yepp the dates look sane now.
A few things though, there is no need to print the full timestamp, hours and minutes is enough.
Also a comma as separator between date and time might be needed.


> Linus, I'm sure you get bored merging all these Linux patches... could you
> run Subsurface in Swedish and take a look at the dates as well?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> /D

/Jocke

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