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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Declension of month names in dates
From:       Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-08-16 11:20:13
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On Friday 16 Aug 2002 8:05 am, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Jacek Stolarczyk wrote:
> > Current framework does not allow to write a proper date
> > in long format in many languages.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > 1) adds the ability to specify whether you want
> >    possessive forms of month names in dates ("of
> >    January" instead of "January"). In many languages
> >    (like Polish and Czech) it cannot be done even by
> >    concatenating "of" and month name
>
> This is all good and fine, but considering that there is a
> much larger variation in the declension of dates, day names
> and month names, a more general system might be in order.

<snip>

Could it be that this is becoming too complicated to be made "generally" 
workable without, in effect, having separate case for each language. Perhaps 
there should be a plugin mechanism, so that these sort of cases are handled 
by code written for the purpose?

Regards
Mike 

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