Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [ANNOUNCE] Locale data date acceptance patterns, localizers HEADS UP please :)

Hi

I'm currently looking in to the Swedish (sv-SE) date-patterns. I'm not 
quite sure how to deal
with a few things. In Sweden the official standard for time is "H.MM" 
(or "HH.MM").
It is also very common and accepted to use the international standard 
with : as a
separator. It is so common that it actually got changed to this i 
OpenOffice.org and
inherited into LibreOffice.

Is it possible to accept both . and : as separators?

Common dateformats that LibreOffice doesn't support for Swedish include:
D/M
D/M YYYY

EU-standard (not seen that often but since were in the EU and all EU 
documents ,
use this format it would be a good thing to support):
D.M
D.M.YYYY

The SS-ISO 8601 standard YYYY-MM-DD is the most frequently used format and
the current standard for Swedish in LibreOffice. Is it possible to 
support all
these formats?

When it comes to date acceptance I'd say that maybe D/M might be good to 
accept
besides the ISO standard of course. I do not think that it is a good 
idea to accept
the D.M though.

I did a quick test modifying the sv_SE.xml but got stuck building 
afterwards.

I suppose my later questions all depend if there is any possibility to 
support
multiple separators.

Thank you for any guidence
Niklas Johansson


Eike Rathke skrev 2012-01-12 14:43:
> Hi,
>
> In order to get rid of the annoying "accept every input as date that
> might resemble some date in almost any locale" behavior I recently
> implemented locale dependent date acceptance patterns that need to be
> matched for date input, for full details see
> http://erack.org/blog/archives/8-LibreOffice-date-acceptance-patterns.html
>
> If in your locale input of incomplete/abbreviated dates shall be
> allowed, this will need a<DateAcceptancePattern>  element be added to
> locale data, for example in en-US it's "M/D" and in de-DE it's "D.M."
> (both already in).
>
> Just mail me the pattern(s) for your locale, I'll add it then.
>
> Thanks
>    Eike

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