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Re: 2.29 freeze update: Last fortnight
15.01.2019 19:22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 1/15/19 10:16 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > Shouldn't the flags be quoted, like "_" and "-"? Also, it seems to me
> > that
> > a line starting with a plain minus sign does not look good.
>
> Yes, quoting sounds right.
Thank you.
Paul, Zack, please take a look if I was right to say that
"alternate" is incorrect and should be "alternative" instead. [1]
Now I am not sure about it, it seems that the word "alternate" had
been used before. See also the current patch where Tamuki Shoichi
changes all occurrences of "alternate" with "alternative". [2]
Also please look if this sentence can be improved:
+If the @code{E} modifier is specified (@code{%EC}), the locale's
+alternative representation for year (the era name) is used instead.
[3]
My point is that since "%C" is a century number (hm... actually, the
previous century number) then mentioning a year here is not correct.
Regards,
Rafal
[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00999.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-01/msg00240.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-01/msg00241.html