Re: [vdr] a simple locale question

Hello

Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb jhall@maoz.com:

Hello,

In writing a plugin that displays a date, it occurred to me that date in a locale-friendly way might be a good idea. What is the current 'blessed' way to make vdr display a date? I suppose it could be a setup option, but that just seems kindda drab.

In the live plugin - http://live.vdr-developer.org/ - we use a two fold approach.

Dates are formatted with strftime(3) which obeys for some of the format specifiers the current locale of the VDR. Additionally we 'translate' the format strings with the standard i18n support of VDR (e.g tr() macro). This allows the localization people to tailor to their special needs.

Best regards Dieter