Bug#509191: locales: New French month abbrevs (fr_FR ver 4.4) are not fixed length
Package: locales
Version: 2.8+20080809-3
Severity: normal
Hello,
locales version 2.8 switched from version 4.3 to 4.4 of fr_FR. The
changes in the file are mostly to the abbreviations, and in my view
to the worse.
- Month name abbreviations were changed from a fixed three letter
length (jan, féb, etc.) to variable length, ranging from 3 (mai) to
5 (juil., avril).
- A period was added to all weekday abbrevs, increasing from 3 to 4
letters (but this time keeping it fixed).
Working in text mode this is enough of a nuisance to make me switch to
an English locale, where all abbrevs are still 3 letter, without period,
as I believe is the standard.
Would you consider reverting to the old fr_FR ?
Cheers,
Itai BEN YAACOV
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.8-1] 2.8+20080809-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
locales recommends no packages.
locales suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: fr_FR.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8, he_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8
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