Re: [Gaim-i18n] Translatable strftime() format strings?

[Ambrose Li <ac...@ad...>]

Let me say I hit the "Send" too quickly; I was writing about "%x" and
was thinking about "%c". :-/

So you can ignore my comments about "%x", but I stand by my comments
about "%B %Y".

And I still think we should keep "%x %X" translatable just in case
some language we don't know has to have the time before the date.


On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:23:44PM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote:
> 2. In most CJK locales, the "native" (libc-native is what I mean)
>    translation of %x is often wrong.  This is so commonplace that I
>    am actually very worried that our date-writing conventions will
>    be a next victim (after comma placement in large numbers) of
>    the culture-changing effects of ubiquitous buggy software.
> 
>    I am sure some will say gaim is not the place to fix libc bugs.
>    But this bug is too commonplace to be ignored. And the appearance
>    of new, similar bugs in other software means that we can never
>    guarantee bug-free translations in all versions of libc in the
>    future.