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Comment on non-free dictionaries that might be intended to be free by Caolan

Caolan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:47:22 +0000

The EUPLv1.1 was now approved for use in Fedora, to the Luxembourgish is now imported and will be in Fedora 13

Comment on non-free dictionaries that might be intended to be free by Michel Weimerskirch

Michel Weimerskirch — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:52:55 +0000

As of today, the Luxembourgish dictionary is now licensed under EUPL v1.1

Comment on DEV300_m68/DEV300_m69 by ajax

ajax — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:37:15 +0000

“low hanging fat” is my new favorite neologism.

Comment on casual code annotation by jni

jni — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:44:56 +0000

Yes, me too. Have you found a tool to do that?

Comment on my first sub hour build by Pádraig Brady

Pádraig Brady — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:52:47 +0000

Note there is a new `nproc` command coming to coreutils so one might be able to leverage that to auto select the level of parallelism in your build scripts

Comment on controlling symbol ordering by Taras’ Blog » Blog Archive » Rant on Library IO

Taras’ Blog » Blog Archive » Rant on Library IO — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:37:44 +0000

[...] Found some mentions of GNU Rope unfinishedware and a relatively recent blog post relevant the subject. Posted by tglek Filed in Uncategorized No Comments [...]

Comment on Dates, etc. by Caolan

Caolan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:36 +0000

Turns out that icu 4.2 and CLDR 1.7 are kept in sync. Just that icu ignores unconfirmed fields and uses defaults in that case, i.e. 2009/09/03 is an unconfirmed date format for Afrikaans, so icu ignores it and falls back to the ISO standard format.

Comment on locale mockup by Dwayne Bailey

Dwayne Bailey — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:43:27 +0000

I really like this. I also find this insanely frustrating in GNOME, I made a number of locale changes to get correct behaviour only to discover that GNOME has its own internal overrides for things like the starting day of the week.

Being able to setup these things is pretty hard for the average user so seeing something like this is great. I’m glad you also included fallback languages since in many cases English is a bad fallback.

However, I think you might find that these things blow up into people wanting more options. In South Africa (ZA) we have a defacto currency representation of R1 000,00 but we’ve also being Americanised and use R1,000.00 – either is great except if you are a journalist or accountant and you need the nbsp version. We’d need decimal and thousand separator to handle that.

Comment on Dates, etc. by Dwayne Bailey

Dwayne Bailey — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:34:16 +0000

Those poor kids with surnames like Abbot, they get picked on first for English orals! So with a language like Afrikaans I get picked on (I maintain a lot of these locales).

I’m really glad you’ve done this. When we did our initial CLDR to OOo alignment it exposed a number of bugs that we were able to correct. So exercises like this that expose inconsistencies, while they might be tedious to execute, are really important to get locale data in good shape. Many thanks!

It seems that the whole date thing needs a nice review and it looks like I’ll be doing that for all _ZA languages.

Comment on Dates, etc. by Caolan

Caolan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000

MS has Afrikaans default short date format as the same as CLDR 1.7, i.e. 2009/09/03 Front page of Beeld is using 03-09-2009 South African Tax Forms are using 2009-09-03