https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14145
Siddhartha Ghai <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from Siddhartha Ghai <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #9) > Thanks. > > @Niklas: Right, we could have solved the problem by editing some templates or > even patching the code related to the magic words like {{CURRENTDAY}} etc. > But, > we, or at least the Assamese community are accustomed using Latin numerals > and > symbols in mathematics starting from primary schools and even in our daily > lives. Some other Indian language communities, like the Hindi users also > follow > the same convention. Apart from that English numerals are very common in > India > and almost everyone can understand them. > > Basically this is the reason we have adopted this approach. The numeral problem is a general one for indic languages. The problem is two-fold: inputting different numeral systems (parser function support) and viewing different numerals on a per-user basis. For users being able to see numerals of their choice, you could try the numeral converter gadget as used on hindi wikipedia [1]. Its a javascript-based gadget which uses a cookie to set preference of a user on a browser. It is also usable for IP users. Code is also availaible on mediawiki[2]. For input support for parsers, the module convert on english wikipedia somewhat solves this problem. See this user discussion on english wikipedia for a possible solution [3]. [1]: http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF:Gadget-Numeral_converter.js and http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF:Gadget-Numeral_converter.css [2]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Numerakri.js and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Numerakri.css [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johnuniq#Module:Convert_and_non-arabic_digits -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
