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Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 [BZ #23758]
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki at linet dot gr dot jp>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:35:02 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 [BZ #23758]
- References: <CAKCAbMjA3j0GhDUN1qfvh=7bOxEES4-c1PAAta6uFVBe=J=SWw@mail.gmail.com> <201901181359.AA04194@tamuki.linet.gr.jp>
18.01.2019 14:59 TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> wrote:
> [...]
> From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2
> [BZ #23758]
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:45:37 -0500
>
> > The thing I was trying to say is that "%Ey" (in the ja_JP locale)
> > produces the number of a year _within_ an era. In this context, the
> > Japanese word I want is not the word for the _name_ of an era, but the
> > word for an era itself. What is that word?
>
> Hmm, I cannot think of the word for an era itself.
I think we can skip the parentheses and their contents completely
if the English text outside is sufficient and the Japanese term is
only bringing confusion.
Regards,
Rafal