Re: [Chicken-users] Check SRFI 19 localized strings

[Kon Lovett]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:

> Hi Kon,
>
> while we're at it, I figured I could contribute a German locale
> file.

Thank you. I was going to specifically ask for one since we have a  
number of German speaking users.

> Note that there is no AM/PM in Germany (don't know about other
> Germanophone countries but I think they don't have it either). I just
> left them in so I don't break anything but feel free to correct it, of
> course :-)

Actually removing the AM/PM would not stop a caller from using them,  
the system would just substitute the print form of the key if a value  
is not found. But no one formatting dates for a German locale would do  
such a thing.

> I also used the timezone name (i.e. ~Z) instead of its offset
> (~z as the en locale does).

Ok. I will need to check how it used though.

> What about different countries by the way? There is at least one
> difference in Austrian month names I am aware of. Does SRFI-19  
> consider
> that?

It can. By subclassing as an Austrian German, so there would be an  
`at' directory under the `de' one. So the POSIX locale might be  
`de_AT.UTF-8`

Note that there is a Brazilian Portuguese (pt/br) locale.

> Moritz
>
> <srfi-19-de>

Best Wishes,
Kon