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Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 00/13][BZ 10871] Month names in genitive case
30.12.2016 13:55 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The localedef utility is defined by POSIX so that users can define their
> own locales. It must accept locale sources that only include the data
> defined by POSIX, without requiring any extensions such as alt_mon. (Of
> course how such locales are represented in localedef *output* is up to
> us.)
That's OK for me if we define that if alt_mon section is missing then:
- alt_mon is copied from mon?
- or: alt_mon contains all empty strings?
My point is that neither glibc nor applications should deal with
missing alt_mon data with this kind of code:
month = nl_langinfo (ALTMON_1 + n);
if (!month || !*month)
month = nl_langinfo (MON_1 + n);
which would be a kind of madness if applied wherever a month name
is needed.
Regards,
Rafal