Bug#738544: wrong month name for February in de_AT: FebruAr
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:32:14PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Peter Palfrader [Mon Feb 10, 2014 at 01:20:28PM +0100]:
> > Package: locales-all
> > Version: 2.13-38+deb7u1
> > Severity: normal
>
> > } weasel@defiant:~$ LC_ALL=de_AT date +%B
> > } FebruAr
> > } weasel@defiant:~$ LC_ALL=de_DE date +%B
> > } Februar
>
> > The month's name in de_AT should be "Februar". "Feber" is also acceptable.
> > "FebruAr" with a capital A is just Wrong (with a capital W :).
I have just committed a patch in our stable branch to fix that. It will
therefore be fixed in the next upload to wheezy if the stable release
manager are fine with the fix. We won't do an upload only for that, but
as soon as we have more fixes, we will upload it.
> AFAICT with locales-all 2.17-97 it seems to be "fine"[1]:
>
> mika@heart ~ % LC_ALL=de_AT date +%B
> Februar
> mika@heart ~ % LC_ALL=de_DE date +%B
> Februar
>
> [1] Though I consider it broken that de_AT says "Februar" instead of
> "Feber", see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feber
This is the opposite opinion from bug#661760, which says that Feber is
incorrect. I do not want to flip flop regularly between the two
versions. Is there any "official" source showing that Feber or Februar
should be used?
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