Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:54 UTC
Hello Dear In the Arab world months are named by tow names Gregory and Syriac. Is it possible to be enabled a choice in user preferences to chooses favored name of months?
Gregory(en)||Syriac||Gregory(ar) -------------------------------- January||يناير|| كانون الثاني February||فبراير|| شباط March||مارس|| آذار April||أبريل|| نيسان May||مايو|| أيار June||يونيو|| حزيران July||يوليو|| تموز August||أغسطس|| آب September||سبتمبر|| أيلول October||أكتوبر|| تشرين الأول November||نوفمبر|| تشرين الثاني December||ديسمبر|| كانون الأول
Hi Elph, my guess is that MediaWiki uses what Unicode CLDR defines as month names. :) In this case, for the Gregorian calendar, that's Gregory(ar), see http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/ar.xml#L1565 Excuse my ignorance, but I'm not sure what exactly you refer to when using the term "Syriac". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language defines it as a language that disappeared in the 14th century, but also after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_Neo-Aramaic it's still rather unclear to me. How common is the "Syriac" version, and where is it used?
Hi Andre I think a mistake happened from me. Because the right name was "Assyrian" not "Syriac" We use those names which originally Syriac or Assyrian roots by Arabic alphabet so we call it Syriac months You can see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_calendar
Corrected the calendar names in the bug title.
