#4147: Add some i18n hooks to DateFormat
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Reporter: orestis | Owner: garcia_marc
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Internationalization | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords: dates month
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by shell_dweller):
I think a better way would be to use Babel which also has a Django
implementation (http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/BabelDjango). It uses the
Unicode CLDR which provides standard date representations. Specifically it
makes use of "wide" representations which for Greek are equivalents of
possessive case:
{{{
>>> import babel
>>> from babel.dates import format_date
>>> from datetime import date
>>> now = date.today()
>>> print format_date(now, format='d MMMM yyyy', locale='el')
21 Δεκεμβρίου 2009
>>> print format_date(now, format='long', locale='el')
21 Δεκεμβρίου 2009
}}}
What UCLDR cannot be used for is interpolations like "from %s to %s" %
(month1, month2). This is however in general case is a non trivial problem
which belongs rather to the domain of computational linguistics then to
internationalization.
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