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Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 1/6] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:15:55 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 1/6] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
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- Reply-to: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
26.03.2016 01:57 Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I have to admit I have never looked into it at the code level. I am
> probably mistaken in making an assumption of such support from reading
> the "mon" description in TR 14652.
>
> TR 14652
> http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf
>
> states:
>
> mon
>
> Define the full month names, to be referenced by the %B field
> descriptor. The operand consists of twelve or thirteen semicolon-
> separated strings. The first string is the full name of the first month
> of the year (January), the second the full name of the second month,
> and so on.
It looks like glibc does not fully implement the specification from this
document. Feel free to file another bug report related with this.
Best regards,
Rafal