Currently for gregorian we have the following in "root": <eras> <eraNames> <alias source="locale" path="../eraAbbr"/> </eraNames> <eraAbbr> <era type="0">BE</era> <!-- = 544 BC gregorian. --> </eraAbbr> <eraNarrow> <alias source="locale" path="../eraAbbr"/> </eraNarrow></eras>and we have the following in "en", for example: <eras> <eraNames> <era type="0">Before Christ</era> <era type="1">Anno Domini</era> </eraNames> <eraAbbr> <era type="0">BC</era> <era type="1">AD</era> </eraAbbr> <eraNarrow> <era type="0">B</era> <era type="1">A</era> </eraNarrow></eras>We need a way that locales can provide data for an alternate secular/neutral era name if their default era name has a religious basis (as with the current en/gregorian/era naming). Since many locales already use a secular/neutral name as the default for gregorian, this would need to fall back to the default name in the same locale. The easiest way to do this is just provide <eras alt="variant">l in locales that need it. A request for the "variant" form will fall back to the default form in the same locale if no "variant" form is present. So in "en" we would add this: <eras alt="variant"> <eraNames> <era type="0">Before Common Era</era> <era type="1">Common Era</era> </eraNames> <eraAbbr> <era type="0">BCE</era> <era type="1">CE</era> </eraAbbr></eras>(We could use other names for the alt form such as "secular" or "neutral" but "variant" is more general and already widely supported.) |
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