I don't think three letters is quite as universal as you think. It's also really common in English to use M,T,W,T,F,S,S (in context) or M,Tu,W,Th,F,Sa,Su or variations. Since we have a defacto OSM standard with two letters (the opening_hours key has over 100K uses), and it's unambiguous, this seems like a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Serge Wroclawski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">emacsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Janko Mihelić <<a href="mailto:janjko@gmail.com">janjko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It shouldn't be too hard to make a JOSM add-on that converts 3 letters into<br>
> 2. So that's no problem.<br>
<br>
</div>You seem to be not seeing the point.<br>
<br>
Two letter days of the week (DOW) may be standard in German, and<br>
that's fine. But the tags we use in OSM are in English. They aren't in<br>
an abstracted system which we then render- we use English and then<br>
codify from there. It's what many software projects do, and it's what<br>
we do.<br>
<br>
So then we must ask "What is the standard way of representing a day of<br>
the week in English?". The way is to look at a standard, such as the<br>
locale (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale</a>)<br>
<br>
So if you look at your locale from a *nix system- you will see the<br>
abday, and you will see unicode encoded strings that show the day of<br>
the week.<br>
<br>
Since that is a pain to look at, we can use Python to help us:<br>
<br>
>>> import time<br>
>>> time.strftime("%a")<br>
'Wed'<br>
<br>
If you aren't familiar with Python (or the C it borrows from),<br>
strftime prints out the time, and I've given it the parameter to<br>
display the shortened day of the week, according the locale (in my<br>
case, en_US).<br>
<br>
I'm not about to say that whether we use three letters or two is the<br>
end of the world, but I will say that we should strive to use things<br>
that are standard- things that are defined elsewhere. Doing so will<br>
make it easier for folks to use the software, but also easier for<br>
programmers to have something they expect.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
- Serge<br>
<br>
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