panicbutton-translators

[Panicbutton-translators] Suggestion: make the time formatting also a "translatable" string

[Gerard J. <ger...@a2...>]

Hi,

as the translation is progressing, I'm ironing out a couple of issues=20
myself that I found in Version 2.3 - with translation efforts in mind, I=20
would suggest to also add the formatting to the list of translatable=20
strings:

%d.%m%.%Y %H:%M:%S

gives me a "European" type of time formatting (DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM:SS),=20
which should be pretty "standard" for most languages, and whoever needs=20
a different date form could then use the Python formating as used by=20
strftime anyway.

Affected would be mSendMail.py and mSendMail.SSL.py (in which I also=20
stumble accross a couple of status messages that don't seem to have made=20
it into the .pot file yet - see line 60 and following in the 2.3=20
sourcefile).

Should be easier to implement than attempting to cater for any time/date=20
formating request that may come up...

Gerard

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Re: [Panicbutton-translators] Suggestion: make the time formatting also a "translatable" string

[Russ P. <ru...@ph...>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:29 +0200, Gerard Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as the translation is progressing, I'm ironing out a couple of issues 
> myself that I found in Version 2.3 - with translation efforts in mind, I 
> would suggest to also add the formatting to the list of translatable 
> strings:
> 
> %d.%m%.%Y %H:%M:%S
> 
> gives me a "European" type of time formatting (DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM:SS), 
> which should be pretty "standard" for most languages, and whoever needs 
> a different date form could then use the Python formating as used by 
> strftime anyway.

I was hoping that %c would work, since according to the manual it
returns "Locale's appropriate date and time representation.", but when I
tried it I got the date in American format (ie MM/DD/YYYY). I think for
the time being I'm going to stick with asctime, which unfortunately
ignores locale settings, but because it returns a date with the month
name, it should at least make sense to everyone.

Russ