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From: Sveinn í F. <sv...@fe...> - 2021-03-10 08:35:14
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For translators it may be nice to be pointed towards some of the websites instructing how to build strftime-expressions, example: <https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/>. Quite often the translation-comment is something like: #. This is the time format used in the "Date Modified" column and #. * in the Properties dialog. See the man page of strftime for an #. * explanation of the values. Such a comment is limited to Linux and perhaps a handful of applications on other platforms, unless linked to any of the web-based versions of strftime man pages; e.g.: <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html> In the Ubuntu indicator-datetime.po is this comment: #. TRANSLATORS: A format string for the strftime function for #. a clock showing the day of the week and the time in 24-hour format without #. seconds. Information is available in this Launchpad answer: #. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+question/149752 Which is awful because it does not give any hint on how to build strftime-expressions, but then, there's a link to a manpage. I'd prefer the friendly interface of <https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/> or other similar website (there's a handful of them). Just thoughts, Sveinn í Felli P.S.: In my dearest Icelandic, the 'natural' expression is "%e. %B %Y - %H:%M:%S" and the 'scientific' one is "%F". Þann 10.3.2021 05:22, skrifaði Bill Kendrick: > > Okay I hate %x ("Preferred date representation based on locale") in English. > ("03/09/21" nonsense!!!) > > So I'm going to have the gettext()'d format string for strftime() be > this, which everyone can simply replace in their localization > (e.g., "%Y-%m-%d" or just "%F", if you want ISO 8601 "YYYY-MM-DD" > format, which I do love for technical use.) > > %B %e, %Y > > That's full month name (_should_ be localized), one digit day, > four digit year. So in English: > > March 9, 2021 > > > I realize this is almost identical to what I had before ("%e %B %Y"), > _but_, since the format string is now wrapped in gettext(), hopefully > it will be more flexible. :) > > > -bill! > > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 01:01:31PM -0500, Mark Kim wrote: >>>> Would it be easier to just do >>>> >>>> <?= strftime("%x", mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 5, 2021)) ?> >>>> >>>> .. and skip month_names[], its lookup, relying on the user to figure out >>>> how to "translate" "%1\$s %2\$s %3\$s", and documenting how to >> translate it? >>> >>> Would this address Shin-Ichi's issue? > > > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-i18n mailing list > Tux...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-i18n > |
