"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}}"
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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