On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Eike Rathke wrote: > On Thursday, 2011-09-01 09:35:09 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: >> First, I think extending this from Persian to English already shows >> the biggest flaw of this approach: Do you want to extend in in this >> way for all languages supported by LibO? I would consider such >> extension to additional languages a localization task, a task that >> typically only consists of translating string resources. > > String resources wouldn't be sufficient as different locales have > different rules for how to form a number string, especially when it > comes to ordinals.
Thats why I sketched that string resources plus algorithm (taking care of all the various language-specific details) thing further down in the thread. > However, this looks more like spell-out than level > numbering and as such misses the point of the numbering provider. If we > wanted to implement spell-out I'd rather go for ICU's methods than > implementing yet another home-grown solution. Sounds even better. -Stephan _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
