LL-L: "Code switching" LOWLANDS-L, 19.FEB.2001 (03) [E]

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From: Stefan Israel [stefansfeder at yahoo.com]
Subject: Multi-linguistic environments

Roger Thijs heeft geschreven:

> An issue of today was how to formulate delivery terms
> or payment credits of two weeks in screens where people have
> to enter a number of days in a text box:
> - French speaking people say "dans quinze" jours and enter 15
> in the "d/j" text box.
> - Dutch speaking people say "binnen veertien dagen" and enter
> 14 in the "d/j" text box.

One convenient way around an impasse like that would be to have
people write the actual date 14 days or 10 business days etc.
from the current one.

If the form is electronic, the computer could add a uniform
number of days, regardless of language (or user's poor math);
that would also confirm the precise date for the user, e.g. <15.
april>.  Someone would still have to decide definitively how to
define "two weeks", but there would then be one standard at
least.

Stefan

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