On Fri Oct 29 11:25:54 2010, SCHUBIGER wrote:
Show quoted text> On Fri Oct 29 02:08:16 2010, SHARYANTO wrote:
> > I'm currently hacking on DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::ID.
>
> As I don't speak Indonesian, I was thinking whether a plugin based
> grammar module inclusion would be suitable now. That ought to be
> considered definitely at some point since it probably would increase
> maintenance independence and likely bring code enhancements, too.
>
> In order to improve the metadata handling, report the obstacles you
> encounter while authoring the Indonesian grammar class.
You're right, I did encounter some difficulties and quite a bit of
English-ishms (like plural handling, word order, ordinals) as well as
things like how there doesn't seem to be an easy way to customize
dayframe, etc.
So much that I abandoned this approach for now.
Show quoted text> > There is a regex check qr!^(?:en)$!i in _init_check() in DateTime/
Format/
Show quoted text> > Natural.pm which prevents loading another language module. Perhaps
change
Show quoted text> > this to qr!^\w{2}$! or something?
>
> This literal change would allow for language codes without an
according
Show quoted text> grammar module to bypass the validation, but would fail later due to
the
Show quoted text> module missing. I'd suggest simply changing it to qr!^(?:en|id)$!i
for now.
Please disregard my previous request and do not add the 'id' to the
regex. Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
Steven
