Re: [Bug-gcal] function day_suffix() is too English-centric

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Giuseppe,

[Sorry for the late reply.]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015, at 15:34, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > In src/utils the function day_suffix() is solely geared for English:
> > it provides the token suffixes for first, second and third, and the
> > "th" suffix for everything else.  But in Dutch we would need also
> > a "ste" suffix for 8 and for anything above 19, in order to be fully
> > correct.  For Dutch I can work around this in the translation file
> > by reducing the suffix for all forms to a single "e" (which is the
> > modern, lazy way of indicating ordinals anyway).  However, I can
> > imagine that there are languages where no such simplification is
> > possible or acceptable.  So... what to do?
> 
> I didn't find any reasonable way to manage ordinals in gettext.  My
> suggestion is to use '°' where anything else is not correct.  What do
> you think?

Hmm, what you suggest is the degree sign, which is different from the
masculine and feminine ordinal signs (º and ª) used in some languages.
I don't think it is an adequate enough solution.

Where/when are these ordinal suffixex output anyway?  Can you
give me an example gcal command?  Maybe it is possible to avoid
them altogether?

Benno

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