- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:49:36 +0000
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: GEO <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Dear Richard, I've tried to translate http://www.w3.org/International/Overview.html, and started with an automatic translation as a draft (by www.ajeeb.com) to finalize it then. I discovered that months were not correctly translated. Indeed, they are writen Apr for April Mar for Mar ... Some time also, we find it writen "mar", "apr" all lowercase and without a dot mark at the end. I think that it must be stated somewhere that in date format, it is a good thing to avoid month abreviations and to write explicitely (January, February ...). At least for automatic translator, which now are used very often on the Web. By the way, in http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech/#ri20030510.103018444, it is said: "The date 02/03/04 may be March 4th, 2002 (in Japan,...), 2nd of March, 2004 (in Europe) and February 3rd, 2004 (in the USA). It would be better to write this as something like 02 mar 2004" I suggest to say: "... It would be better to write this as something like 02 mar 2004 or, preferably, 02 March 2004" or something like that. Regards, Najib -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org) Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 (0) 37 68 71 74 Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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