Re: AM/PM letter UNICODE issues
Re: AM/PM letter UNICODE issues
- Subject: Re: AM/PM letter UNICODE issues
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:51:41 -0500
Right - some don't. We do take care of those situations. But many do and its nice to get that from OS itself.
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:48 PM, A.M. wrote:
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> On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:41 PM, glenn andreas wrote:
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>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Alex Kac wrote:
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>>> I'm fairly certain my problem here is that I wasn't thinking about unicode terms here.
>>>
>>> What we are trying to do:
>>> Shorten the AM/PM to just the first character in Western Languages so that a time is shown as "1:30a".
>>>
>>> NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
>>> NSString* am = [[[formatter AMSymbol] substringToIndex:1] lowercaseString];
>>> NSString* pm = [[[formatter PMSymbol] substringToIndex:1] lowercaseString];
>>>
>>>
>>> This works in Western languages just fine.
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>> Not sure that this is even true - in Germany, time is displayed normally using a "24 hour" notation (no AM/PM), and this true in many other locations as well. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country> for all sorts of other gory details and special cases. Even for US cases, there are people who set their time format to use 24 hour time and so would expect to see "13:00" and not "1:00p".
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>> Bottom line is trying to display time in a non-standard format is going to be problematic and have support issues.
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> In addition to this, some languages have no notion of individual characters or words, so trying to automatically abbreviate AMSymbol is a non-starter. The only way to accomplish this would be via localization.
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