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Re: Incorrect days of the week in ru_UA locale


* Mikhail Gribanov:

> Hi, sorry if I wrote the wrong way, I did not find who to contact to
> fix this problem.
>
> Preamble: Many linux distributions use the wrong day of the week in
> ru_UA locale and close my bug reports because of "out of scope". After
> some searching I managed to find out that localization is taken from
> glibc. I hope you can help me (or send to the right place).
>
> Problem: In ru_UA locale for days of the week the abbreviation with
> three letters is used, which is incorrect: "Пнд", "Вто", "Срд"...
>
> Solution/Fix: Use two-letter abbreviations:"Пн", "Вт", "Ср", "Чт",
> "Пт", "Сб", "Вс". You can also just copy days of the week from ru_RU
> locale where are they represented correctly.

Does the choice have political implications?  uk_UA locale uses
three-letter month abbreviations, I think.


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