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3001	Handling more complex languages	Orestis Markou <orestis@…>	hugo	"Hello.

I'm Greek, and this isn't anything django-specific. I haven't seen any
project do this right, and it is *very* annoying for us Greeks.

You see, the Greek language has a lot of suffixes that change according
to the tense, person etc (I don't know all the english terminology).
Example:

English:

1) User
2) Add user

Greek:

1) Χρήστης (Xristis)
2) Προσθήκη Χρήστη (Xristi)

You see how 1 has a final ""s"" while 2 hasn't. In other cases there are
3 different forms.

The most annoying and important thing is dates. Not even google gets
this right. You see:

The month known as ""November""
November, 7,  2006

But:

Ο μήνας γνωστός ως ""Νοέμβριος"" (Noembrios)
7 Νοεμβρίου 2006 (Noembriou)

So, when displaying months in a Calendar you have to display the first
form, while when displaying dates (eg. in a comment) you have to use
the second form.

I'm willing to provide a patch to django for this, and I thought about
hacking up DateFormater, but how should I go about this ? It isn't
something gettext can handle, there have to be different behaviors for
different languages.

In http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2282 I proposed creating
different files (that was js though) for different languages. Can
something like this be done for python ?

Should I post a ticket about this ? "	enhancement	closed	Internationalization		normal	wontfix			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0