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From:
Ron Savage
Date:
September 14, 2011 16:17
Subject:
RE: Announce: DateTime::Format::Gedcom V 1.00
Message ID:
1316042266.3716.244.camel@zigzag.savage.net.au
Hi Mike
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 20:44 +1000, Mike Hamilton wrote:
> DateTime::Format::Gedcom (thanks, Ron!) is installed, and am just starting to play with it. I have a plethora of torture tests in the form of weird and wonderful dates in GEDCOMs from my far-flung and less than computer-literate umpteenth cousins.
I'm glad you're going to torture the code, apart from the fact I'll
probably have to improve it afterwards :-).
Make sure you're using V 1.01.
> Am a little surprised by the "month_names_in_" (Dutch, French, Gregorian, Hebrew, Julian) stuff, with the language name hard-coded.
Understand. I don't really like the design. It's due to 2 factors:
o The GEDCOM standard specifically lists only a few language escapes, on
p 45: Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew, French, Roman and Unknown. Make of that
what you will.
o The previous author of Gedcom::Date added some Dutch words to his
code, so I added the Dutch month names.
I should have put the URL I used in the POD. I'll fix that:
http://wordinfo.info/unit/3233?letter=C&spage=2
But there's another problem: Accents on letters aka I18N. My first
attempt to include modern French month names resulted in a Perl syntax
error, so I haven't yet learned how to make the source UTF-8, even
though I /thought/ that was my default (under Emacs). Moral: Still
learning - Must to better.
> Wikipedia says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages) :
>
> "According to SIL International, there are 6,309 spoken languages, as cataloged and described in the book Languages of the World (ISBN 0883128152). The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages: for example, ISO 639-3 uses "eng" for English and "apk" for Plains Apache, one of the five Apache languages of North America."
>
> Of course, one would only ever encounter a tiny fraction of those 6,309 languages. But (say) you want Spanish, German, Italian; this would require month_names_in_spanish, month_names_in_german, month_names_in_italian, which seems rather silly.
>
> So, my very simple suggestion is that month_names_in_dutch(), month_names_in_french() [...] be replaced with month_names_in(language).
I'll have a think about your suggestion, but the reason I listed all
languages in separate methods was so that people could easily sub-class
my code and add 1 method for their favourite language (before I
ripped-off - errr incorporated - their code into mine :-).
That way, a sub-class and the addition of @#DNewLanguage@ to their
GEDCOM file meant no code changes from me would be necessary to get them
up and going.
Anyway, glad to hear the code is of interest to someone...
--
Ron Savage
http://savage.net.au/
Ph: 0421 920 622
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