"Delirium" wrote:
Timwi wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Timwi wrote:
You should probably give us more information on how Greek month names work. You have only told us what does *not* work. I might be able to come up with a technical solution if you explain to me what morphological properties of Greek need to be satisfied in the month names.
There may be cases I'm not covering, but for the one I can immediately see in the interface, the issue is that "day month" type dates use the possessive form of the month name, while month names used by themselves use a simple noun form.
[... etc. ... 'Maios' vs. '5h Maiou']
Ah-ha. I kind of thought so. So why don't you just do this:
- Set the month name to "Maio"
- In a sentence like "{{MONTHNAME}} is nice", write "{{MONTHNAME}}s
estis bioutiphulos"
- Set the date format to "{{DAY}} {{MONTHNAME}}u {{YEAR}}"
Well, unfortunately one part I had left out were the accents, which shift when the word becomes possessive. To take the example from Andreas's email, the simple noun form of June is "Io?nios", whereas the possessive form is "Ioun?ou". So it would really need a separate {{MONTHNAMEPOSSESSIVE}} or something of that sort.
-Mark
I think that in most of the languages the "{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}u" solution will solve the problem. (In Hebrew, for example, we say "Yanuar" for Jan, but "15 beYanuar" for Jan 15 - of course, in Hebrew chcracters - and when a date is needed, we use to write "{{CURRENTDAY}} be{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}" and it's all fine.)
Anyway, I have a different solution: There is another already-present month template - {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} - that I don't know for which purpose it is used, but it seems to be really redundant. So, you can use {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} for the simple form and {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} for possessive, etc.
Naftali