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Bug 29494 - [QT3] English numbers below 100
Summary: [QT3] English numbers below 100
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XQuery 3 & XPath 3 Test Suite (show other bugs)
Version: Candidate Recommendation
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: O'Neil Delpratt
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2016-02-21 14:59 UTC by Benito van der Zander
Modified: 2016-06-14 15:46 UTC (History)
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Description Benito van der Zander 2016-02-21 14:59:39 UTC 
Some tests  (format-date-en123 format-date-en124 format-date-en125 format-date-en126 format-date-en127 format-date-en128) expect English numbers like "twenty one, ... twenty nine, NINETY ONE, ..., NINETY NINE".
However, if you look them up in the dictionary, you see that they are supposed to be spelled twenty-one, ... twenty-nine, NINETY-ONE, ..., NINETY-NINE.
So I suggest that the tests are changed to expect these numbers with a hyphen.
Comment 1 Michael Kay 2016-02-21 19:35:39 UTC 
It's true that most style guides recommend hyphenating numbers between 21 and 99 (and this appears to be true in both the UK and US). However, actual usage by publishers is highly variable. Generally I would go for allowing both.
Comment 2 O'Neil Delpratt 2016-04-19 09:45:17 UTC 
I have made the change as suggested in comment #0 and #1.
Comment 3 Josh Spiegel 2016-04-19 21:30:16 UTC 
O'Neil, I think you accidentally killed the old result and added two identical new results.
https://github.com/LeoWoerteler/QT3TS/commit/82e835226ea09f1804c622bde103ad18c450e820#diff-1a34ae427c78646da601373a95df7077

in the case of format-date-en123
Comment 4 O'Neil Delpratt 2016-04-20 10:58:13 UTC 
(In reply to Josh Spiegel from comment #3)
> O'Neil, I think you accidentally killed the old result and added two
> identical new results.
> https://github.com/LeoWoerteler/QT3TS/commit/
> 82e835226ea09f1804c622bde103ad18c450e820#diff-
> 1a34ae427c78646da601373a95df7077
> 
> in the case of format-date-en123

Fixed. Thanks
Comment 5 Benito van der Zander 2016-05-04 23:43:36 UTC 
In format-date-en125 there is still a dash missing: Twenty-Nine; Thirty; ThirtyOne
Comment 6 O'Neil Delpratt 2016-06-14 15:46:15 UTC 
fixed and committed to cvs.
Thanks