Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] 0.8.1

[Matt J. <mj...@um...>]

If you look at most OS's they give language as one choice and then your
localization as another. This way I can still see dollars but see the
written word in another language, maybe Spanish.

I would suggest not putting the start of the week in the language files
because they are unrelated completely.  Sure most European countries start
on Monday, but most Americans like it to start on Sunday.

Furthermore, what about creating localization settings? If you want to make
it easy for the user what's one more select box?  Select Language as config
#1 and then select localization as default config #2.




On 11/7/02 5:27 AM, "Mike" <mi...@la...> wrote:

> Jared wrote :
> 
>> I disagree. It's not stuck to the language but rather the country. The
>> US has the week start on Sunday. If someone in the US prefers their
>> calendars to be viewed in French or German, why should the week start
>> be on Monday? The calendar is still a US calendar.
> 
> This is your point of view. But remember: start week of the day doesn't
> affect the calendar results themselves! It's just for VIEWERS'
> convenience, just to fit people's mind. Just like translation or 24/12.
> So why stuck 24/12 in the language file and not week days ? 24h is not
> part of the US calendar and someone watching your calendar with "French
> view" would see 18h30: Japanese. Even if he lives in the US and is used
> to 12h time format. That's the same thing. Week days are just something
> everyone learn at school and are used to. So if you, Jared, come to
> France, you will be a little confused to see a french week view even
> with english day manes on it if you choosed the "US view". Because it's
> not convient for you.
> 
> 
> 
>> It is very common for a language to be stuck to a country as well, but
>> they aren't tied as tightly together and bilingual people might want
>> to choose.
> 
> For bilingual persons it's another deal. Not a big deal, because
> they're used to see both ways of displaying calendars. When french
> speaking Quebec people, and they're numerous, come to our websites
> hosted in France, they're used to see things the French way: 24, metric
> system, Euro, monday, etc... When they surf on US website they see
> thing differently. Quebec webmaster, will be able to have a custom
> mixed French/12h/sunday calendar with the custom.inc.php file I
> mentioned for the convenience of their Quebec visitors. It's still up
> to the webmaster!
> 
> That's a very little thing to change, and that would allow "Prefered
> view language" feature. Without that change, "Prefered view language"
> feature is a nonsense and is useless too.
> 
> Mike. 
> 
> 
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