On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:19:09PM +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
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> I feel there is a "conflict of interest" between the glibc maintainers
> and the GUI developers. The GUI developers want more freedom from glibc
> locale, so they maintain their own locale data for some fields (scary).
> For example, for "am_pm" (or 12-hour clock), the glibc maintainers
> prefer to set it if that is the official representation in the country.
> Else, this field should be empty. They also suggest to developers to
> check this field if it's empty, if it is, do not show the time in
> 12-hour format (as it would be technically incorrect).
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140891&msg=47
> In GNOME and the clock applet, you have the option to choose between
> 12-hour or 24-hour clock. So, for Greek, if you choose 12-hour clock,
> then 7pm shows as "7:00 " since am_pm is blank (it's a bit ironic, as
> officially in Greece we have the 12-hour clock).
So the Greek locale has to be fixed, this does not mean that all locales
should have their am_pm field set as written in
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data_formats.html
Out of curiosity, why are people willing to contribute to the CLDR
project, which has the worst bug tracking system and gives mailing lists
access only to its members? I for one am not willing to pay $120/year
in order to be able to follow its development.
Denis
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