On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Benoît Minisini < gam...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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... > 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. Jussi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
