Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] 0.8.1

[Jared <xe...@si...>]

Most of the time, but not all the time. It would cause more problems 
than it would solve, in my opinion. Any of those languages that 
originate from countries where the start of the week is Monday wouldn't 
work in America, for example. Whether someone wants to view a language 
other than English in America shouldn't affect the importance of Sunday 
being our consistent start day.

This is why, despite localization, Apple has chosen iCal to have a 
separate preference for the week start day. As Chad said, we could put 
a default value in the language file with the option to change it in 
the config file.

It might be best to start doing our language files as en_US or en_UK 
and things like that. After all, the wording and spelling of English 
words will change. As for other languages, I'm not sure how much they 
change, but English has major differences. Maybe we should just do it 
for the few languages where it truly matters, by putting a 
"-COUNTRYCODE" after it. Like "english-us.inc.php". Either that, or the 
config file will become more cryptic for that setting. If there is a 
prefs page to build the file, (or however Chad is thinking of 
implementing prefs), then it wouldn't be such an issue.

-Jared

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 02:15  PM, Michel wrote:

> Chad wrote :
>
>> The problem I see with that is adding even more language files (like 
>> AUS) for no real reason. Providing all the *most common* 
>> configuration options in the config file is what I'd like to keep. 
>> Having to tell someone to look in the language file for their start 
>> week time seems to be a bit user-unfriendly. I'd like them to only 
>> have to touch one file. You could perhaps have it in both places, 
>> blank in the config but if the user sets it there, it overrides whats 
>> in the language file. :-)
>
>
> Chad, most of the time, Start day and language are tied together. 
> Australian was a really bad example as ALL the english speaking 
> country have their week begining with monday. And I don't think there 
> is any incompatibility beetween language and start day.
>
> So why including the 24/12 time format in the language pack ? We're 
> speaking about the same Week/Time specification linked to the > language.
>
> I promised, Chad, this is a good idea. And something less to configure 
> installing phpiCal...
>
> Mike.
>
>
>
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