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Re: [PATCH 1/1] NEWS: Avoid the words "nominative" and "genitive".
On 07/27/2018 05:47 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> Glibc supports two grammatical forms of month names and we keep adding
> the locale data which actually use this feature but those two forms are
> not necessarily nominative and genitive. It is better to use a more
> generic term.
> ---
> NEWS | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
OK for 2.28/master.
Please commit.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index b08fee6..c946ba2 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Major new features:
> - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
> fMxdivfNx functions.
>
> -* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
> +* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
> languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
> Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
> - support abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
> + support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
> + and Kashubian.
>
> * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
> - include the support of the nominative and genitive month names.
> + include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
>
> * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
> patches.
>