It would be great to get the opinion from the entire language community, although I didn’t get any reply from others for Serbian. Personally I think we will benefit from this change, but it will initially make a huge mess.
У пон, 22. 01 2018. у 22:44 +0100, Rafal Luzynski пише: > 22.01.2018 13:37 Милош Поповић <gpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > For Serbian (as well as for Bosnian, Montenegrian, Croatian) it would be for > > the > > best to keep %B as nominative and add %OB for genitive, since we would > > require > > nominative in great majority of cases and would make the transition towards > > the > > genitive less complicated and more smooth. > > Swapping the meaning of %B and %OB is impossible because it would > also require swapping the meaning of MON_* and ALTMON_* in nl_langinfo(). > > Regarding the Croatian language, I'm not really sure. Please see: > > https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._leden > https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._januar > https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80 (22. > јануар = 22. januar) > https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._janu%C3%A1r (22. január) > > So far so good, all nominative cases. But: > > https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._sije%C4%8Dnja (22. siječnja) > > Therefore I'd rather to hear from the proper translators for > each language individually. > > > Serbian example: > > January — januar > > January 21st — 21. januar > > Today is 21st January — Danas je 21. januar > > Appointment on January 21st — Sastanak 21. januara > > Visit your granny on January 21st — Poseti baku 21. januara > > This is understandable for me. The new specification says that > %B is "the grammatical form required when the month is used as > part of a complete date" and %OB is "the form required when the > month is named by itself". It does not have to be genitive and > nominative case, respectively. If in Serbian it is always the > nominative case then let it remain as it is now. It's not obligatory > to introduce the genitive case, it makes sense only if it is helpful > for the language community and only if you find the current (old) > implementation incorrect. That's why I'm asking first. > > Regards, > > Rafal _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
