Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)

[keld at keldix dot com]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:02:08AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 01:55 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 
> > strftime() now implements a %OB format specifier which generates an
> > alternative month name.  For the languages which require both nominative
> > and genitive case of the month names it is expected that it outputs
> > the alternative month name which should be a nominative (sic!) case
> > or whatever is appropriate when formatting the month names standalone
> > (without a day).  For those languages %B will return the basic month
> > name but from now it is expected to be a genitive case or whatever is
> > appropriate when formatting full dates (including both day and month).
> > This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month
> > name standalone should use %OB from now.  For those languages which
> > do not use different (nominative and genitive) cases of the month
> > name or do not yet have their locales updated %OB will retrieve
> > the same string as %B so moving to %OB will be harmless as long
> > as the version of glibc which supports this feature is used.
> 
> What's the status here on the POSIX side?  It's marked as Accepted in
> the tracker, but the changes apparently haven't been folded into
> subsequent editions.

I would also like to add this to ISO 30112. Do you have text in standardese
that could be added to the text?

best regards
keld