jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
>
> This reminds me of one pet peeve of mine: you can spot i18n/10n piece of
> software written
> by an English *) speaker pretty quick by checking whether the names of
> weekdays/months/languages are Capitalized... saying
> "Maanantai/Tammikuu/Suomi" is very wrong, it should be
> "maanantai/january/suomi" (Monday/January/Finnish).
Do you mean that when one writes the dates in Finnish, it should use
"january"? ;-) Does it apply for the other months too? So in other
words, are we on "16 june 2000" in Finland?
> *) or a German, Nederlande, Afrikaans, Catalan, Cymraeg, Gaeilge, or Latine
I would be surprised if a Catalan (or any Romance language) have it wrong.
If it is, there is a fair chance that s/he is so contaminated by English
that s/he believes one have to write "Dilluns/Gener/Català" (I know of
such persons; I am not taking them as reference for linguistic issues, though).
And I do not know of any person whose mothertongue is Latin.
Antoine
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