New subject: Setting up for the Greek language

22 Jun 2004

‏‏"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}}"
 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l 
 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

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