Ubuntu Calendar App

Bad month translation in Polish and Russian

Bug #1522569 reported by Niklas Wenzel on 2015-12-03

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Calendar App	In Progress	Medium	Unassigned	Ubuntu Calendar App 0.6 "OTA-11"

Bug Description

On the ubuntu-phone mailing list, some users reported that the calendar app shows an incorrect form of the month for them. [1] Here's the explanation from a Polish native speaker from the mailing list:

"Listopad is the name of the month November, whereas the form 'listopada' basically means 'of November', as in 'the 20th of November'."

Michal Sawicz mentioned how to fix this in [2].

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg16856.html
[2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg16910.html

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~nikwen/ubuntu-calendar-app/fix-standalone-month-name-i18n

Ready for review for merging into lp://qastaging/ubuntu-calendar-app

Jenkins Bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2016-04-06

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Needs Fixing on 2016-03-22

David Planella: Needs Fixing on 2016-02-02

Kunal Parmar: Pending requested 2016-01-21

Revision history for this message

Niklas Wenzel (nikwen) wrote on 2015-12-03:

Also taken from the mailing list to get a better understanding: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/13477242/

Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Niklas Wenzel (nikwen)

Bill Filler (bfiller) on 2016-03-07

Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
milestone:	none → 0.5
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Bill Filler (bfiller) on 2016-04-04

Changed in ubuntu-calendar-app:
milestone:	0.5 → 0.6

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote on 2016-06-30:

IMG_20160630_102933.jpg Edit (4.1 MiB, image/jpeg)

Polish months as well as English numerals one/first, two/second are available in Ubuntu for developers in Polish language in two forms:
1. Nominative case
2. Genitive case

Calendar's developers took and set the wrong case: genitive. Correct it should be nominative. Nominative always looks well in Polish also with date as in my second picture below, i mean a full date as 30 czerwiec 2016. Super corretly it should be 30 czerwca (genitive) but if the calendar app takes months only from one source, please take nominative. As i said it always looks well.
What we see at the moment is Januar's, Februar's etc.
Just change the source where the calendar takes the months from.

These bugs happens over and over again because there are always people who want to be super correct and don't take into account that a month name can be used in same case in other place so perhaps this bug is a result of some other bug fix. I can't retranslate anything in the app package. It takes months from some other source but in wrong case. I think it takes 5 minutes to correct it.

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote on 2016-06-30: