Re: Patch to add support for locales (for localized dates)

I applied this to the codebase.  Sorry it took so long, but this month has 
been flying by.

Thank you very much for the work--it fixes issues that have needed fixing 
for a while.

/will


On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Martn van de Streek wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made a patch that adds locale support to PyBlosxom 1.3.2. It's
> backwards compatible if you don't have a py['locale'] key in your
> config.py, but if you have it, pyblosxom will switch to the specified
> locale before doing anything else.
>
> If setting the locale fails, it will fail silently. This should probably
> be logged somewhere, to reduce "I set the locale in the config and it
> doesn't work!"-requests.
>
> If a locale is set, it's temporarily disabled for 'special' things, like
> generating RFC-compliant date fields (which should be in English ('C') ).
>
> Setting the locale affects the following things (as far as I can tell,
> I'm not too familiar with PyBlosxom guts yet ;))
>
> * /year/month/day URL's will change: the abbreviated month name should
>   be a localised one, and 'default' ones won't work anymore.
>
> * All date/time template variables (except the 'standards': w3cdate and
>   rfc822date) will change to localised versions, if applicable.
>
> * Plugins that do things with 'standards-defined' dates might need a
>   bit of additional code to switch to the 'C' locale when necessary.
>
> I'm currently updating the pycalendar plugin to automatically select the
> start of the week and month/day names based on locale settings. Because
> it uses strftime, the links to /yyyy/mmm/dd paths are already OK.
>
> Martijn
>

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