Hello Hans,

I'm not sure - did you mean it this way?
It's working but it's a bit ugly... isn't there any macro providing the raw month number directly (something like \v!monthnumber)?

-Richard

P.S. I also cannot get rid of the spaces before the numbers. I guess there should be no spaces in Chinese; see how Xiao wrote the date: "2005年12月22日" ... Currently, \currentdate gives: "2005年 12月 22日".

From: Hans Hagen [mailto:pragma@wxs.nl]
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl]
Sent: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:57:55 +0100
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

Richard Gabriel wrote
> >> 1. \v!month gives chinese number with the month symbol [so appending
> >> \cnmonth once more is undesired].
> >> I guess the resulting date is a bit inconsistent - there should be all
> >> Arabic numbers or all Chinese, not mixed.
>
> >what is convention in china?
>
> From Xiao Jianfeng:
>
> In Arabic number, today is "2005年12月22日", and in Chinese number,
> today is "二○○五年十二月二十二日". Both are often used, and the
> former is more popular now, because it is easier to write or type
> with keyboard.
>
>
> So it's up to you...

ok, so send me the def's that correspond to the former (2005 .... )
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