[Bug 15278] Adding Islamic calendar support in HTML5

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15278

--- Comment #6 from Cameron Jones <cmhjones@gmail.com> 2012-01-13 17:48:17 UTC ---
This should only apply for formatting and parsing the value to\from a user
interface display. 

The transmission format should retain the ISO 8601 representation value so as
to remain unambiguous and remove the need for any additional encoding
declaration within the request. This is an internet standard and i am unaware
of any actual alternatives to this (other than the subset rfc3339). Since the
consumer of transmitted values is servers and developers this has little impact
within multi-cultural uses and even the english language is almost a
prerequisite for programming let alone using a gregorian calendar.

The only limit with this is that dates before the common era will not be
encodable, however that a user is able to interact with dates\times within a
chosen calendar scale satisfies the overwhelming majority of use cases and
represents far greater authoring potential than currently forcing display
within the gregorian calendar.

With further thought this approach may contain potential for greater
applicability in scope as currency and collation information is also
specifiable within these tags. 

A new currency input could be added with automatic currency symbol substation
and formatting.

Collation could be used for automated ordering of lists which are dynamically
populated on client-side.

The additional benefit to full support of this feature is that this is an
extensive standard repository of locale data which is already managed and
integrated into operating systems and programming languages. This should make
implementation and maintenance a relatively simple process and without
introducing any overhead into html or specification authorities.

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Received on Friday, 13 January 2012 17:48:28 UTC