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bug#19174: Wishlist/suggestion for emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-french.el
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Jean Forget |
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bug#19174: Wishlist/suggestion for emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-french.el |
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Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:40:23 +0200 |
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Le 09/06/2021 à 16:11, Mattias Engdegård a écrit :
I was curious about what the changes would entail, so I took the liberty
to adapt the patch to master; diff attached. (Sorry if I duplicated
someone's work.)
The addition of individual day names is obviously an improvement. As for
the rest, you should probably explain and defend them (which is not as
terrible as it sounds; we just want to know the reason).
For example, should the complementary days really be shown with day
numbers and day-of-week names, as they don't really belong to a week or
month? Shouldn't days, months etc be written in lower case since that's
the convention for French?
Several years ago, somebody gave me a PDF file giving historical
events for each day of the French Revolutionary calendar.
I converted it to HTML and here is the result (English version):
http://datetime.mongueurs.net/Histoire/tit/titre-g.en.html
When you read the pages for the additional days, you see that
they are printed with a day number and a day-of-week name. See
http://datetime.mongueurs.net/Histoire/s-c/01-g.en.html
About lower case vs upper case: The French convention for
Revolutionary names may be different from the French convention
for Gregorian names. Most often, the revolutionary month names
and day names are printed with an initial capital letter.
Yet, there are exceptions. See the front page (link above)
which mentions the "9 floréal an 7" with a lower case "f".
See the links from
https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary#Internet
(sorry, my email program has split the URL in two lines).
Jean Forget