From: "digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug localedata/25119] Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 22:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-25119-716-UzoLjmka0i@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-25119-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25119
--- Comment #5 from Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com> ---
(In reply to Jan Slaný from comment #4)
> I haven't consulted this with the maintainers. The last change mentioned in
> the file header is from the year 2000 and I don't really know whom to
> contact. Is there any maintainers list I can check?
I have just contacted (off-line) a Czech software translator and we are going
to discuss this issue more thoroughly.
> You are right in guessing that the weekday mostly appears in the beginning
> of a date format. I am aware that the capitalized version may be desired in
> some cases, but these are limited to the beginnings of titles or sentences.
> The current solution prevents us from writing proper sentences like "Today
> is Friday, the first of November", which requires a lowercase version of the
> weekday in Czech.
This is a case we discussed in another bug report. Your example is a complete
sentence translation and my answer is: no, glibc' strftime function is not
supposed to support this complex cases. Its purpose is to format dates. If
you need a complete sentence you need an automatic translation software. :-)
> In short, I feel that the decision whether to capitalize or not should
> really be left upon the author of the text.
True, this is reported as bug 21370 but we don't yet have a solution.
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2019-10-19 21:50 [Bug localedata/25119] New: " slanyjan89 at seznam dot cz
2019-10-19 21:55 ` [Bug localedata/25119] " slanyjan89 at seznam dot cz
2019-10-19 21:56 ` slanyjan89 at seznam dot cz
2019-10-25 19:41 ` digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com
2019-10-28 11:40 ` slanyjan89 at seznam dot cz
2020-01-25 22:53 ` digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com [this message]
2020-01-31 11:08 ` pknbe at volny dot cz
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