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Re: [HEADS UP] Changes in date formatting (strftime, nl_langinfo)



On 25.01.2018 04:58, Rafal Luzynski wrote:

> Hm... only now I can see it is converting all month names to > lowercase but this is a direct import from CLDR. Do you prefer >
standalone uppercase (as it is in glibc now) or lowercase (as it is > in
CLDR)? Hint: we usually treat CLDR as an authoritative source.
Let it be lowercase (as it is in CLDR). I suppose it is always possible
to convert the case appropriately programmatically when needed.


>> $ LANG=be_BY@latin date -d 20180501 +%B Travień > > Most probably this is because your glibc is older than 2.26 because
> we have changed this last summer:
Then let's follow these recent changes as well as CLDR (maj).


> Yes, I mean *.po files. I didn't mean glibc sources and didn't mean > *.po files for just glibc. AFAIK translationproject.org provides >
translations for multiple programs. If you have a local copy of all >
those *.po files (in Belarusian or in any language) then I will >
appreciate if you notify me of any occurrences of "%B" or "%b" or > "%h"
without the day number ("%d" or "%e") which either is a format >
specifier for stftime() or it seems to be so.
Sorry, I did not manage to check that yet.


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