[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #704: Format does not handle time separator correctly

[Jussi Lahtinen]

OK, new version of GambasTester will check the separators. Now accepted are
";" and "." for time, and "/" and "." for date.
Is there any other valid separators?


Jussi



On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Benoît Minisini <
> gambas at ...1...> wrote:
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>> Le 28/08/2015 18:52, Tobias Boege a écrit :
>> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>> >> The point was, how do I test whether Format function works in some
>> other
>> >> language than what I'm currently using?
>> >> Month names are not any bigger problem than the separators. How do I
>> know
>> >> which is the correct separator?
>> >>
>> >
>> > (Sorry, I haven't really paid attention to the whole thread here and
>> I'm no
>> > locale expert, so what I say may miss the point.)
>> >
>> > AFAICS you can use the C library's setlocale(3) function to set the
>> locale
>> > of the Gambas process. If that doesn't work (haven't tested in a long
>> time
>> > and remember I had some problems last time I tried that), you can at
>> least
>> > set the LC_ALL environment variable prior to starting the Gambas
>> project.
>> >
>> > As soon as the locale is set, you can use localeconv(3) to get a struct
>> > lconv which, according to locale(7), contains a field `decimal_point'
>> where
>> > you find the decimal separator among lots of other information.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Tobi
>> >
>>
>> There is no concept of date/time separator in glibc locales.
>>
>> Moreover, if you write a date/time following a glibc language locale
>> ABC, you will be often surprised by people speaking the ABC language
>> tellign you that they do not write date/time that way.
>>
>> First example: French.
>> Second recent example: Norwegian.
>>
>> Maybe this is the reason why KDE does not use glibc locales, but its own
>> system.
>>
>> As for Gambas, I don't think you can automate date/format testing.
>>
>> You have to:
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>> - Install every language support package possible!
>>
>> - Find one person for each language that will check if the date/time
>> printed by Gambas has a sense for it.
>>
>> So it will be as until now: I will wait for bug reports...
>>
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> Yes exactly.
> I think I will do some general sanity check for the Format function. So at
> least we would catch k's etc as a separator, if enough people would install
> the GambasTester.
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> Jussi
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