[Building Sakai] Change proposal for 2.8: export_filename_date_format (i18n to configuration)

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

I think most non-English locale users are not comfortable with English 
format.

This is why I was suggesting using a ISO default and being able to set 
the format through configuration once instead of 5 times through 
localization right now.

How is it less simple than your suggestion?

J-F

Beth Kirschner a écrit :
> Possibly true, but just aiming to simplify localization. I'm doubtful 
> most translators will know how to 'localize' the date format string, so 
> as long as folks are comfortable with most locales defaulting to a US 
> format, than this shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> - Beth
> 
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> 
>> I think your suggestion is not as simple as needed and may be risky. 
>> Are we sure we only need to remove spaces in every locale to have a 
>> suitable string for part of a file name? I wouldn't bet on it.
>>
>> J-F
>>
>> Beth Kirschner a écrit :
>>> I would suggest formatting the date automatically, leveraging the 
>>> Java DateFormat.getDateFormat() which takes Locale as an argument. 
>>> The resulting date string can then be transformed into a suitable 
>>> filename by removing spaces. Automating this would be one less thing 
>>> to worry about when localizing Sakai.
>>> - Beth
>>> On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I think export_filename_date_format (used in Gradebook, Roster, Tests &
>>>> Quizzes (Samigo), User Membership and SiteStats) is not a i18n property
>>>> but a configuration property.
>>>>
>>>> Because it's used in several tools, I would like it to become a general
>>>> configuration property.
>>>>
>>>> I propose to use the name general.export_filename_date_format in
>>>> configuration and to set its default to the ISO date format of 
>>>> yyyy-MM-dd.
>>>>
>>>> For further details and related problems, you can check:
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17240
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/STAT-191
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15872
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15682
>>>>
>>>> What do the code owners and others devs think?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Jean-Francois