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

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Sorry, not ";", but ":".


Jussi

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>
wrote:

> 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?
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> Jussi
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> 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:
>>>
>>> - 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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