[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11263] New 'locale' setting in subscriptions is not user friendly

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11263

Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #7)
> Apart from that I still think this could be a good candidate for an
> authorized value or a small table. Installing languages takes time, updates
> are often forgotten when you don't actually use them etc. And it would allow
> for entering "custom" seasons, like abbreviated versions, fall instead of
> autumn etc.
> If we had a pref/tool wherepeople can change it, this could also allow to
> have other custom patterns.

Agreed -- I'm not a big fan of relying on system locales for getting month and
day names (with the exception of considering their use for command-line
utilities, since one would be logged into the server anyway), for several
reasons:

- it creates an extra point of breakage for the naive user
- they can't be customized
- since they don't cover seasons, currently only English and French are
supported for season names.  A mechanism that would allow the user to set
season names would be trivial to extend to month and day names.

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