1064601 - [RTL] Calendar should be Arabic Civil or Arabic Islamic.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Calendar, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephany Wilkes]

Select Arabic language in Settings.
Observe that the calendar is Gregorian Civil.

Expected: When the device is activated in Arabic locales, the calendar should default to Arabic civil. When the language is set to Arabic, the user may want a Gregorian calendar (as, for example, an Arabic speaker living or working in the U.S. may prefer) but should be able to choose from the Arabic civil or Arabic Islamic calendars (in a sort of setting).

Information about these calendars can be obtained through ICU (International Component for Unicode). We believe ICU is already being used as part of Android.

We'll need UX specs and visual design for both new calendars on Firefox OS, to ensure they fit patterns, etc. Adding Juwei and Peko to CC: because we will need Calendar design/adaptation for this for 2.2.

Comment 1

[Stephany Wilkes]

Clarifying that, for 2.2, we'll focus on Arabic Civil calendar.

Comment 2

[Gareth Aye [:gaye] (back from PTO)]

ICAL doesn't support non-Gregorian calendars yet (in general).

Comment 3

[Gareth Aye [:gaye] (back from PTO)]

There is standardization work being done there, but I doubt that providers like Google / Yahoo / Apple will have support by 2.2 timeframe.

Comment 4

[Stephany Wilkes]

Thanks Gareth - really helpful. We were hoping to get most of this from the ICU library, but that work dropped when the 2.2 scope changed. Maybe you, Ahmed, Dylan and I can get together to talk through everything we'll need to support this? Thanks!

Comment 5

[Dylan Oliver [:doliver]]

RTL triage: P3 -- this bug is not prioritized for inclusion in the 2.2 release.