Bonjour/Hello,
I just tried to print (with my French locale) a weekly page of
calendar from within Evolution, and surprise (shock), the format
is the exact translation (in French) of
Monday 10th, November 2003
(that is Monday 10�me, Novembre 2003)(and note that even this is
contrary to normal French typographic rules, it should be 10e).
Well, for public display where I work, it just doesn't fit.
I checked the code, and the format is indeed hardcoded. It doesn't
even try to use the %x option of strftime (it correctly uses strftime
to translate, however, the format is something like "%A 10th, %m %Y"
with a hardcoded lookup table for ordinals between 1 and 31).
That is ugly. Even the Chicago manual of style recommands using
%m %d to point at a specific day, and %x is the simple and efficient
%d/%m/%Y (or %m/%d/%Y according to the en_GB/en_US=C locale).
The point of my (lengthy) mail:
I will, in time, submit this to the main evolution development team.
However, in the meantime, should I send a bug to bugs.debian.org with
a patch ? Could it be integrated as an out of sequence debian release?
I personnaly think it is normal bug, due to the ugliness.
--
Jean-Christophe Dubacq
