NAME

       Date::Manip::Lang - language support for Date::Manip

DESCRIPTION

       Date::Manip supports a number of different languages when parsing dates, and more can be
       added.

CURRENT LANGUAGES

       Currently, the following languages are supported by Date::Manip.  The version of
       Date::Manip where they were added is included (so you can see the minimum version of
       Date::Manip needed to parse each).

       The language can be chosen by setting the Language config variable to the name of the
       language or any of the aliases included in the table.

       All names and aliases are case insensitive.

          Language     Version  Aliases

          English      default  en, en_us

          Catalan      5.43     ca
          Danish       5.41     da
          Dutch        5.32     Nederlands, nl
          Finnish      6.31     fi, fi_fi
          French       5.02     fr, fr_fr
          German       5.31     de, de_de
          Italian      5.35     it, it_it
          Norwegian    6.21     nb, nb_no
          Polish       5.32     pl, pl_pl
          Portuguese   5.34     pt, pt_pt
          Romanian     5.35     ro, ro_ro
          Russian      5.41     ru, ru_ru
          Spanish      5.33     es, es_es
          Swedish      5.05     sv
          Turkish      5.41     tr, tr_tr

ADDING A LANGUAGE

       Adding a language is easily done (if you're fluent in both English and the other
       language).  If you want to add a new language, do the following:

       Language name
           When you submit the new language, I'll need the name of the language (of course) and
           any common locale names that might be useful for people to select the language.

           For example, if you were creating a Spanish translation (which is not necessary since
           it already exists), I would need the following list:

              spanish es es_es

       Copy the english module
           Copy the english.pm file (which is in lib/Date/Manip/Lang in the Date::Manip
           distribution) to the new language (i.e. spanish.pm in this example).

       Set some variables in the new module
           The new module (spanish.pm) will need a few simple modifications.  Change the package
           name from 'english' to 'spanish'.

           Fix the @Encodings lines.  Most languages can be written in more than one encoding.
           The first encoding in the list should be utf-8 and the last should be perl.  Include
           any other encodings that should be supported as well.

           Set the $YearAdded and $LangName appropriately.

       Translate the language terms
           Translate all of the data (after the __DATA__ line).

           The data section of the module (which is written in YAML) is fairly straightforward to
           translate.

           Every term is defined in the Date::Manip::Lang::english document (or in any of the
           other language module documents), so please refer to it to find out what each element
           means.  Then replace the English version with the new translation.

           There are some requirements:

           1) Every element should be defined (except for the sephm and sepms elements).

           2) The module must be written using UTF-8 characters if the language includes any non-
           ASCII characters.

           3) Each element includes a list of values (different variations of the element).  In
           most cases, the order of the values for each element is not important since they are
           just used to create a regular expression for parsing dates, but a few of them are also
           used to determine printable values using the Date::Manip::Date::printf method (or the
           UnixDate function).  These elements are:

              Element       printf directive

              ampm          %p
              day_abb       %a
              day_char      %v
              day_name      %A
              month_abb     %b
              month_name    %B
              nth           %E

           For each of these, the value that should be printed out must be the first value in the
           list.

           4) When possible, if a language includes characters that are essentially ASCII
           characters with a punctuation mark, please include a variation of the value which is
           just ASCII with the punctuation removed.  For example, the spanish name for Saturday
           in ASCII would be written sabado, but in reality, the first 'a' has an accent over it.
           This word should appear twice... first in full UTF-8 encoding, and second as all
           ASCII. If the language (Russian for example) has no ASCII equivalent, just include the
           UTF-8 representation.

       Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

SEE ALSO

       Date::Manip        - main module documentation

LICENSE

       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)