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Possible improvements on German locales
- From: Matthias Dieter WallnÃfer <matthias dot wallnoefer at lugbz dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:00:10 +0100
- Subject: Possible improvements on German locales
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Hi all,
during my work on the de_IT locale I found some room for improvements
for the de_AT, de_BE and de_CH locales.
1. LC_MESSAGES: may be copied from de_DE (only de_AT)
2. LC_NAME: de_DE contains more categories and goes more into detail.
So I propose a copy reference in the other three locales.
> LC_NAME
> name_fmt "%d%t%g%t/
> %m%t%f"
> name_miss "FrÃulein"
> name_mr "Herr"
> name_mrs "Frau"
> name_ms "Frau"
> END LC_NAME
3. LC_TIME date_fmt. date command's output is uncommon in German.
Der Standard (derstandard.at), a big Austrian news site presents the
date in a sane order. <weekday> <day> <month> <year> <time>
> Samstag, 19. MÃrz 2016, 20:33
bad:
> $ LANG=de_AT.utf8 date
> Sam MÃr 19 20:24:43 CET 2016
better:
> $ LANG=de_DE.utf8 date
> Sa 19. MÃr 20:24:35 CET 2016
good:
> $ LANG=de_DE.utf8 date +%c
> Sa 19 MÃr 2016 20:41:25 CET
So I would change the "date" output for each German locale into the
same as "data +%c".
Just my thoughts,
Matthias WallnÃfer