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
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
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.
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 which are optional).
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.
Currently the following rules are available:
For example, in German, default output of the date command includes a day of month with a trailing period. For example:
Mo 3. Jan 11:00:00 EST 2022
If this rule is set, periods followed by whitespace (or an end of string) are stripped.