Right - some don't. We do take care of those situations. But many do and its nice to get that from OS itself.
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:48 PM, A.M. wrote: > > 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/alex%40webis.net > > This email sent to [email protected] Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. "The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell." -- African Tribal Saying _______________________________________________ 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]
