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[Bug localedata/23140] More languages need two forms of month names


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23140

Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Rafal Luzynski from comment #0)

> The list can be extended by the languages which do not need two grammatical
> forms but want to use this feature to begin the month names with upper or
> lower case letter [...]

Could we pretty please have a different notation for this?

Languages that do have different nominative and genitive forms might also want
to have lowercase and uppercase variants (for both kinds), why not allow it for
them too? 

If the same syntax is overloaded, how could any piece of software safely decide
whether to use %B or %OB (or: %b or %Ob) and be sure that it's going to be
okay? You'd need to pick one based on the characteristics of the language,
based on the meaning of the "O" modifier for that particular language, which is
practically a no-go.

Plus, by the way, lowercase/uppercase variants might be relevant for the AM/PM
strings as well.

Different semantics should be achieved using a different syntax.

Thanks!

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