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To: esr@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2587) class and legend data patch -- oops, with patch this time!
From: "Miguel Farah via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:09:24 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Reinier Post via RT [17/12/2002 07:32] dijo/said:
>On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:14:37AM -0800, ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:39:02AM -0800, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
>> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:26:28AM -0800, esr@xxxxxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
>> > 
>> > > I'm not personally attached to the Common Era/Before Common Era
>> > > usage myself.  but unless we want to assume all the users of this
>> > > software will be Christians :-)...
>> > 
>> > We don't want and can't assume this.
>> > 
>> > I'm not a native speaker. So I can't decide this.
>> 
>> Nor am I. But I think using "BC" and "AD" doesn't require you to be
>> a christian. It's just common.
>> 
>> So just leave it please, for heaven's sake ;) . KISS. 
>> 
>> Christian
>> 
>> -- 
>> Christian Knoke     * * *      http://www.enter.de/~c.knoke/
>> * * * * * * * * *  Ceterum censeo Microsoft esse dividendum.
>
>Why don't we ask our Hebrew translator which calendar he would
>prefer to use?  [Cc:ed]

There's the muslim calendar, too.

Why not go all the way and add support for arbitrary calendars?




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