From kde-i18n-doc  Wed Oct 30 20:16:11 2019
From: Shinjo Park <kde () peremen ! name>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:16:11 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Does any team localize years in dates - was - Re: Help needed: staying flexible with copyright y
Message-Id: <6319105.jvntL6VUrT () ainazi>
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2019=EB=85=84 10=EC=9B=94 29=EC=9D=BC =ED=99=94=EC=9A=94=EC=9D=BC =EC=98=A4=
=ED=9B=84 11=EC=8B=9C 37=EB=B6=84 8=EC=B4=88 CET=EC=97=90 Albert Astals Cid=
 =EB=8B=98=EC=9D=B4 =EC=93=B4 =EA=B8=80:
>=20
> Right, so your second question is really for the translators in the list,
> does any of you localize the dates to the "most common calendar system on
> the language"? like
>=20
>     "Copyright 1999-2019"
> would be
>     "Copyright 1377-1397"
> in the Persian calendar system (or maybe 1378-1398 since the years don't
> align)
>=20
> Or do you all just keep the original years?
>=20

We are keeping copyright notice including year as a verbatim copy of origin=
al=20
string in Korean (GNOME Korean translation also does this [1]). Just checke=
d=20
Traditional Chinese and Japanese string where usage of era name [2] is stil=
l=20
visible, they also seems keeping years as is.

[1] https://github.com/changwoo/ko-po-check/blob/
6f5c1b6d60219d99729561faedb5d8f8067f327f/tests/test-convention_copyright.po
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnal_year