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[Bug localedata/11630] Odd time separator in Swedish time format for sv_SE
- From: "m4rh at stjernholm dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 25 May 2010 14:10:13 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/11630] Odd time separator in Swedish time format for sv_SE
- References: <20100524194156.11630.m4rh@stjernholm.org>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From m4rh at stjernholm dot org 2010-05-25 14:10 -------
Figures there would be some "official" writing guidelines that odd format was
taken from.
English influence or not, ":" is defacto much more common in modern everyday
Swedish usage, which a survey of popular Swedish content such as the one I did
readily shows. The purpose of the locale is presumably to use formatting most
Swedes feel comfortable with, and in that perspective common/defacto/established
usage arguably carry more weight than some guideline document, in case of conflict.
A survey of popular usage can of course be done with much more care to avoid bad
measurements such as web sites with poor/sloppy language treatment, but I can
point out that three of them (aftonbladet.se, expressen.se, and dn.se)
correspond to big national news papers, which as such do pay attention to this
sort of thing.
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