On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:41 PM, glenn andreas wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Alex Kac wrote: > >> I'm fairly certain my problem here is that I wasn't thinking about unicode >> terms here. >> >> What we are trying to do: >> Shorten the AM/PM to just the first character in Western Languages so that a >> time is shown as "1:30a". >> >> NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; >> NSString* am = [[[formatter AMSymbol] substringToIndex:1] >> lowercaseString]; >> NSString* pm = [[[formatter PMSymbol] substringToIndex:1] >> lowercaseString]; >> >> >> This works in Western languages just fine. > > Not sure that this is even true - in Germany, time is displayed normally > using a "24 hour" notation (no AM/PM), and this true in many other locations > as well. See > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country> for all > sorts of other gory details and special cases. Even for US cases, there are > people who set their time format to use 24 hour time and so would expect to > see "13:00" and not "1:00p". > > Bottom line is trying to display time in a non-standard format is going to be > problematic and have support issues.
In addition to this, some languages have no notion of individual characters or words, so trying to automatically abbreviate AMSymbol is a non-starter. The only way to accomplish this would be via localization. Cheers, M_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
