[Dev] Re: Recognizing local date, numeric formats on Mac OS X

[Brian Kirsch]

Hello Klass,
Please remember that Chandler is only in its .6 release and is still 
under development. In .6 we put in much of the i18n infrastructure. But 
much is still to be done.

Determining the custom locale Operating System settings on the three 
platforms we support OS X, Windows 2000 / XP, and Linux is no trivial task.

This task will be tackled in our next (.7) release.

However, we do provide a command line option for starting Chandler with 
a specific locale.

%> ./release/RunChandler --locale=da_NL

This should format date / time etc in the manner appropriate for your 
locale.

However, no Danish translation of Chandler is available at this time 
and  the mini-calendar on the lower left hand corner which is a widget 
written in c has not yet been localized.

The translation mechanism and min-cal localization are also coming in .7.


I also just checked in code today that will determine the locale set of 
the Operating System.

So if you want to pull the Chandler source from our svn repository I 
would welcome your confirmation that it does the correct behavior on 
your computer.


In .7 we will add more advanced code that can get all the details from 
the OS including custom date, time, numeric, and currency formats 
specified by the user in the Operating System preferences.

If you are interested in helping us with a Dutch translation of Chandler 
we would welcome your participation.

-Brian Kirsch



Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard St. 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 946-3056
http://www.osafoundation.org



Klaas Punt wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I started Chandler for the first time yesterday, and was
>    amazed that the program somehow did not recognize the
>    settings of the System Preferences for dates etc.
>
>    For a calender application it is essential that the date
>    is given as one is locally used to. 1-2-2006 means to me
>    the 1st day of February, while the program wanted to show
>    me the 2nd day of January.
>    This is set in the System Preferences of OS X. So I looked
>    for a setting in Chandler, couldn't find it. Yhis setting
>    should of course automatically be used.
>
>    So that concluded my tests
>
> greetings,
>   Klaas Punt
>   The Netherlands