Re: Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
R.H. wrote: > Dear Richard > > Thanks a lot for the input regarding the dateFormat function. Very > nice. > > To add: It is also helpful to > > ... set the useSystemDate to true... > > and then also the local date format such as dd.mm. evaluates to > true when asking if it is a date, or not.

Re: Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-21 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi all, > Am 21.03.2019 um 14:42 schrieb R.H. via use-livecode > : > > Dear Richard > > Thanks a lot for the input regarding the dateFormat function. Very nice. > To add: It is also helpful to > ... set the useSystemDate to true... > ... > So, internationalization is a strong need in business a

Re: Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-21 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
Dear Richard Thanks a lot for the input regarding the dateFormat function. Very nice. To add: It is also helpful to ... set the useSystemDate to true... and then also the local date format such as dd.mm. evaluates to true when asking if it is a date, or not. The problem here is that thinki

Re: Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
R.H. wrote: > A bigger problem is that the date can be ambiguous. How to know if a > month and day is actually a month or day using mm/dd/ instead of > dd/mm/? You need to know the source of the date string to be able > to convert it to the local settings in such cases. And no system will

Re: Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-20 Thread AndyP via use-livecode
No t quite fitting what you want but, I found this a couple of days ago on Product hunt and thought you may find it of interest. https://traduora.com/ https://github.com/traduora/traduora - Andy Piddock My software never

Localisation - Internationalization Package

2019-03-20 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
Being "international" I also have lots of need for localization from German to English, French, Italian, Russian. UTF-8 is my friend, first of all. For example, in Switzerland, there are four languages and the German part of Switzerland uses different decimal/currency number settings compared to G