Re: are Unicode codes somehow specified in official national linguistic literature ? (worldwide)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2006 - 17:34:17 CDT

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    Cristian Secară <orice at secarica dot ro> wrote:

    >> "d MMMM yyyy" -> 5 June 2006
    >> "dd MMMM yyyy" -> 05 June 2006
    >
    > Thanks, I was uncertain.
    > Can you please tell me why is the MMMM capitalized ?
    > I looked now at my MS Windows installation and I saw the same kind of
    > convention, z LLLL aaaa (this is the RO translated version).

    Uppercase M's in English mean "Month," lowercase m's mean "minute." I
    don't know if there is a similar ambiguity to be resolved in Romanian.
    It's possible that the L is capitalized simply to avoid confusion with
    the digit 1. 

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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