[HN Gopher] Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown
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       Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown
        
       Author : nabeards
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2021-10-13 17:06 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (qwerty.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (qwerty.dev)
        
       | fauria wrote:
       | Being this a _Unicode_ calendar generator, notice that according
       | to the internacional standard ISO 8601 Monday is the first day of
       | the week.
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
        
         | dhosek wrote:
         | The definition of Monday as the first day of the week is
         | strictly for the sake of week numbering over the course of the
         | year and does not indicate that a calendar which displays weeks
         | starting with Sunday violates the ISO standard.
        
         | lifthrasiir wrote:
         | ISO 8601 is not related to Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646), but if you
         | do care about Unicode you may notice that Unicode CLDR actually
         | supports the preferred first day of the week as a part of
         | locale identifiers [1] (e.g. en-US-u-fw-mon will make the first
         | day of the week Monday, as opposed to the default Sunday for
         | USA).
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentif...
        
         | psd1 wrote:
         | Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day.
        
           | radomir_cernoch wrote:
           | This comment made my day. :-)
        
           | fauria wrote:
           | :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related
           | to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc)
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
           | 
           | update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1
           | BC
        
       | aloisdg wrote:
       | There is a bug. October has 31 days, but the generated calendar
       | have 30 days. Since the website doesn't seems to be open source,
       | I cant fix it.
        
         | jfk13 wrote:
         | And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm.
        
       | MrOxiMoron wrote:
       | On Firefox for android they don't render that great, the first
       | row is misaligned and the day indicator is all over the place.
        
       | cgijoe wrote:
       | This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for
       | SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art
       | Calendars".
        
         | mikestew wrote:
         | "markdown" is not to be found on the page, so it's not for SEO;
         | the submitter (incorrectly) editorialized the title. It's also
         | not restricted to ASCII, so your suggestion does not increase
         | title accuracy.
        
       | JamesCoyne wrote:
       | heh. If you overflow the date past the past about year +/- 250000
       | you break the website and it has to be reloaded (in Firefox at
       | least)
        
       | sambeau wrote:
       | This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for
       | markdown--the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see.
       | And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in
       | Markdown.
       | 
       | Can we change the title back to "Unicode Calendar Generator"?
        
         | eevilspock wrote:
         | Not only that, the _copy to clipboard_ function produces text
         | that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc.
        
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