From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 03:31:39 CDT
The introduction of the many available date/time formatting formats -
now that I finally believe to understand them - is actually a major step
forward. They should be explained a lot better for the next release,
CLDR 1.5, since the forthcoming CLDR 1.4 is essentially a done deal.
Regards, Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Kent Karlsson wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>>There seems to be some confusion around the term "alternate quotation
>>marks". Some people apparently think that the term refers to different
>>
>
>>style of quotation marks, alternative quotations marks.
>>(Several languages
>>have to sets of quotation marks, one commonly used in books
>>and another
>>commonly used in newspapers, office documents, etc.) The
>>misunderstanding
>>is understandable, since the term is misleading.
>>
>>It would be better to call them "inner quotation marks". This
>>would not
>>match the idea of _alternating_ quotation marks, i.e. the
>>idea that you
>>have two pairs of quotation marks to be used alternatingly in nested
>>quotations.
>>
>
> I agree. In addition, some of the CLDR data seems to indicate that
> the current notions have also been misunderstood as "fallback quotation
> marks", since so many entries use the ASCII quotation marks.
>
> - quotation marks
> - inner quotation marks
> - alternate quotation marks
> - alternate inner quotation marks
> would be suitable to give data for. I don't think there's a need for
> specifying
> fallback quotation marks, since that is an entirely different issue.
>
> /kent k
>
> PS
> If you want to trim the number of data items, how about removing some
> of the date/time formatting formats, which are in overabundance.
>
>
>
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