1Date::Manip::Lang(3)  User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Manip::Lang(3)
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NAME

6       Date::Manip::Lang - language support for Date::Manip
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DESCRIPTION

9       Date::Manip supports a number of different languages when parsing
10       dates, and more can be added.
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CURRENT LANGUAGES

13       Currently, the following languages are supported by Date::Manip.  The
14       version of Date::Manip where they were added is included (so you can
15       see the minimum version of Date::Manip needed to parse each).
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17       The language can be chosen by setting the Language config variable to
18       the name of the language or any of the aliases included in the table.
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20       All names and aliases are case insensitive.
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22          Language     Version  Aliases
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24          English      default  en, en_us
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26          Catalan      5.43     ca
27          Danish       5.41     da
28          Dutch        5.32     Nederlands, nl
29          Finnish      6.31     fi, fi_fi
30          French       5.02     fr, fr_fr
31          German       5.31     de, de_de
32          Italian      5.35     it, it_it
33          Norwegian    6.21     nb, nb_no
34          Polish       5.32     pl, pl_pl
35          Portuguese   5.34     pt, pt_pt
36          Romanian     5.35     ro, ro_ro
37          Russian      5.41     ru, ru_ru
38          Spanish      5.33     es, es_es
39          Swedish      5.05     sv
40          Turkish      5.41     tr, tr_tr
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ADDING A LANGUAGE

43       Adding a language is easily done (if you're fluent in both English and
44       the other language).  If you want to add a new language, do the
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47       Language name
48           When you submit the new language, I'll need the name of the
49           language (of course) and any common locale names that might be
50           useful for people to select the language.
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52           For example, if you were creating a Spanish translation (which is
53           not necessary since it already exists), I would need the following
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56              spanish es es_es
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58       Copy the english module
59           Copy the english.pm file (which is in lib/Date/Manip/Lang in the
60           Date::Manip distribution) to the new language (i.e. spanish.pm in
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63       Set some variables in the new module
64           The new module (spanish.pm) will need a few simple modifications.
65           Change the package name from 'english' to 'spanish'.
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67           Fix the @Encodings lines.  Most languages can be written in more
68           than one encoding.  The first encoding in the list should be utf-8
69           and the last should be perl.  Include any other encodings that
70           should be supported as well.
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72           Set the $YearAdded and $LangName appropriately.
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74       Translate the language terms
75           The data section of the module is fairly straightforward to
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78           Every term is defined in the Date::Manip::Lang::english document
79           (or in any of the other language module documents), so please refer
80           to it to find out what each element means.  Then replace the
81           English version with the new translation.
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83           There are some requirements:
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85           1) Every element should be defined (except for the sephm and sepms
86           elements which are optional).
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88           2) The module must be written using UTF-8 characters if the
89           language includes any non-ASCII characters.
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91           3) Each element includes a list of values (different variations of
92           the element).  In most cases, the order of the values for each
93           element is not important since they are just used to create a
94           regular expression for parsing dates, but a few of them are also
95           used to determine printable values using the
96           "Date::Manip::Date::printf" method (or the "UnixDate" function).
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99              Element       printf directive
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101              ampm          %p
102              day_abb       %a
103              day_char      %v
104              day_name      %A
105              month_abb     %b
106              month_name    %B
107              nth           %E
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109           For each of these, the value that should be printed out must be the
110           first value in the list.
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112           4) When possible, if a language includes characters that are
113           essentially ASCII characters with a punctuation mark, please
114           include a variation of the value which is just ASCII with the
115           punctuation removed.  For example, the spanish name for Saturday in
116           ASCII would be written sabado, but in reality, the first 'a' has an
117           accent over it. This word should appear twice... first in full
118           UTF-8 encoding, and second as all ASCII. If the language (Russian
119           for example) has no ASCII equivalent, just include the UTF-8
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122       Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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SEE ALSO

125       Date::Manip        - main module documentation
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LICENSE

128       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
129       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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AUTHOR

132       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
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