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

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Benno,

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

This command should be enough to show suffices in the gcal output:

gcal --holiday-list -q GB_EN --date-format='%1%>2&*D %2 %<3#U %>04*Y'

Regards,
Giuseppe