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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, eric.araujo, eric.smith, flox, gvanrossum, loewis, schmir, vstinner
Date	2011-11-02.17:11:24
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could > look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards: > http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns This scheme is very elegant. I’d love to have built-in/stdlib support for it. Would it need to be implemented in C? > Apparently there is a free implementation for Python out there: > http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/dates.html#pattern-syntax Babel just rocks :)

> Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could
> look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards:
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns

This scheme is very elegant.  I’d love to have built-in/stdlib support for it.  Would it need to be implemented in C?

> Apparently there is a free implementation for Python out there:
> http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/dates.html#pattern-syntax

Babel just rocks :)

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Date	User	Action	Args
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