[Interest] Where do I find more info about calender system?

[John Layt]

On Monday 07 Jan 2013 23:59:45 Soroush Rabiei wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm interested in QCalenderSystem and its related concepts. I'm planning to
> implement a third-party lib for Qt5 for Jalali calender. If possible, I
> would like to integrate it to mainline Qt.
> Only information I could find is this link:
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-ICU
> Just cant wait to get involved! Have some questions about Qt ICU
> integration to get started working on.
> 
> 1. What is current progress of calender systems? An implementation or a
> plan?
> 2. Is Qt5 supposed to support various calender systems in future releases?
> Specially I'm interested in Jalali Calender that is official in my country.
> 3. Is calender systems supposed to be localized and integrated to Qt
> widgets?
> 3. Where do I get more info about ?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Hi,

The plan is to include ICU support in Qt 5.1, which I am currently working on, 
and this will implicitly include ICU's support for alternative calendar 
systems.  It is intended that it will be completely seamless within the 
existing QLocale and QDateTime classes and hence the existing widgets, i.e. if 
the default system calendar is Jalali then all the widgets will pick up Jalali 
with no modifications required.  Extra api will be added to allow specifically 
setting the Calendar System on a widget as well.

At the moment there's not a lot more detail than what's on the wiki, and an 
initial code branch on Gitorious, but I'll have more solid details by the end 
of January as feature-freeze for 5.1 will be in February.

Cheers!

John.