thanks Danilo, Hmm, from a mail thread : http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2002-October/022325.html the suggestion is that Evolution is using LC_TIME.
Can you point me to where the data and time formats get stored ? thx Peter Danilo Šegan ha scritto: > Today at 15:49, Peter Nugent wrote: > > >>Hi >>can anyone confirm (or deny) that Mozilla and Evolution take their >>locale data (such as date and time formats) from glibc ? >>>From a quick trawl this would appear to be the case. > > > I don't know about Mozilla (but listing a directory on my hard drive > seems to suggest that it does), but Evolution uses date and time > formats from translation (so LC_MESSAGES instead of LC_TIME). > > msgid "%A %d %b %Y" > msgstr "%A, %d. %b %Y." > > msgid "%a %d %b" > msgstr "%a %d %b" > > msgid "%a %d %b %Y" > msgstr "%a %d %b %Y" > > msgid "%d %b %Y" > msgstr "%d. %b %Y." > > msgid "%d %b" > msgstr "%d. %b" > > There're many other instances of strftime-based strings in Evolution. > If translators want to use libc-provided formats, they're free to put > "%X", "%x", "%c" etc. in there, but we generally leave it up to > translators because it's easier to control validity of translations > than of locales. > > Month and weekday names are usually taken from locales, but Evolution > seems to have translations for these as well (I don't know where > they're used, but I suppose they're used in citations where it would > be inappropriate to use nominative names from locales). > > Cheers, > Danilo -- Peter Nugent, Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd, Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland. Tel +353.1.8199522 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
