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.lahti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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
