I am working on designing a piece of software that must support multiple languages. There is a design scheme in English at the moment that displays weekdays using a single character (ie: "S M T W T F S"). I know something similar can be done in french. I have two questions:
I need to know if this cannot be done in any of these languages:
- German
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Korean
- Russian
- Spanish
- Polish
- Italian
- Swedish
- Danish
- Dutch
- Greek
- Norwegian
- Czech
- Slovenian
- Portuguese
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Finnish
- Slovak
- Turkish
- Japanese
I am aware that Japanese and Chinese have 3 character names for the week days which basically tranlate to "Star period 1", "Star period 2" etc. and the characters for "Star period" repeat and then the character for the number changes. My question is could you label a column in a table "Star period" and put the character numbers as values in the different rows? Would chinese/japanese people understand this design scheme? Or do all three characters need to be together all the time?