Re: [Lxr-dev] Re: [ lxr-Patches-455555 ] date/time ISO8601

[Pavel H. <pa...@gi...>]

I'm living in country where we speak czech and must say, that 
overlooking localization problems is very common problem :).. but in 
this case it is not a big trouble, I guess.

Of course, extracting current locale-dependent stuff from code and 
keeping it in mind in the future is good idea, but note, that once you 
create locale specific versions, you need people for maintenence.

I'm happ w/ English.

Pavel

Malcolm Box wrote:

> no...@so... wrote:
> 
>>Initial Comment:
>>Why lxr HEAD is using the old American date format and
>>http://lxr.linux.no/source/ is using ISO8601 ?
>>
>>Could you get the code from http://lxr.linux.no/source/
>>to use ISO8601 since this one is tested ?
>>If you can't just apply my patch.
>>
> 
> This bug/patch brings up an interesting question regarding localisation
> support in LXR.  Currently all the templates that are shipped and all
> the output is in English.  To support other languages, changing the
> templates is easy, but some of output is hardcoded in the perl in
> English/US locale.
> 
> Examples of the latter are:
> 
> * Date output
> * Strings searched for to find a file description
> * Filenames for directory description
> 
> in fact a lot of the stuff in Local.pm.
> 
> So I guess the question is, do we want to go to the effort of supporting
> the LXR in other languages?  Does anyone on this list care enough to do
> it and to maintain another language version?
> 
> If we do go for multi-lingual support, what's the right way to make the
> hard-coded output localisable in perl?
> 
> My feeling is that it is a lot of work for limited benefit - if someone
> did want to customise this, it would mean hacking Local.pm and some of
> the scripts in a site specific way, but it would not be hard, whereas
> putting in generic support is a harder.  But then English is my native
> language ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Malcolm
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