[Fwd: Re: [l10n-dev] non gregorian calendars ?]

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From: Eike Rathke <erl at sun.com>
To: dev at l10n.openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [l10n-dev] non gregorian calendars ?
Date: 22 Feb 2002 12:10:32 +0100

Hi Caolan,

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:59:34 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:

> As a matter of interest are there any plans to support non gregorian
> calendars ?

Yes, there will be support for Japanese Gengou and Taiwanese ROC
calendar when the i18n calendar part will be open-sourced. Other
calendars would have to be implemented. There could be some code changes
necessary throughout the entire OOo code base, propably there are still
some assumptions about a year consisting of 12 months here and there..
though I tried to eliminate it whenever I came across.

> http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~lderose/docs/calendar/listsys.html

Nice site, especially the Timekeeping section might come handy :)

Another starting point I like is http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml

> For example islamic and indian saki calendar seem to be supported by
> msword xp.  Should we be supporting islamic, hebrew and chinese
> calendars to go with cjk and ctl support ? :-)

Islamic and Hebrew calendars are important. But I don't think the
Chinese lunar calendar is important, since it wasn't a requirement for
StarOffice 6.0 ;-)  Hindu and other Indian calendars might be important
too.

  Eike

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