Bug#327025: C locale has bad default for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY
reassign 327025 libc6
thanks
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > The _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY symbol, when passed to nl_langinfo, is
> > supposed to give the first day of the week. This seems to work
> > correctly for most locales. However, the results for the POSIX locale
> > seem odd. I think it would make more sense for POSIX to default to
> > Sunday as the first day of the week, rather than Saturday.
>
> you are fully right, but technically this is a bug in locale and localedef
> programs, which belongs to the libc6 package. I do not know whether it
> makes sense to reassign it. This bug has been reported upstream
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181
> on 2004-05-25 with a patch, hopefully upstream will give a comment
> soon :-/
I filed it against the locales package first since I assumed the fix was
in the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX, which is in the locales
package.
Reassigning to libc6 sounds fine, but are you sure the bug is in the
locale and localedef programs? Isn't it in the library source itself?
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gram
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