[chandler-users] International versions

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Niels Hegge wrote:

> After testing version 0.7.0.1 for a couple of days I am quite impressed. This 
> can be a good tool for many small organizations.
>
> My question is about international formats. It would be great to have all 
> text and documentation in my native language, but until that time, is it 
> possible to change date and time formats? In Scandinavia, for date we are 
> using both yyyymmdd and ddmmyyyy and short and alpha versions of the two. For 
> time we use the 24 hour clock (not that I have seen any analogue one like 
> that but ----). I have tested other US PIM programs that makes a mess out of 
> importing our dates.

   Hi Niels,

Chandler can be told to use a different locale that the one it detects on 
startup via the locale option.

If you are using the command line, you can enter this option with 
--locale=sv_SE if you wanted swedish, for example.

You can also enter this option into the [options] section of a file called 
chandler.prefs that is located in Chandler's profile directory (see [1]). You 
may have to create this file if it's not there. For example:

[options]
locale=sv_SE

Setting the locale influences time and date formats, whether 24 hour times 
are used as well as other calendar characteristics such as long and short 
names of days, names of months, first day of week, etc...

Andi..

[1] http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/ProfileDirectory