strftime %b is broken on ja_JP locale

Kazuhiro Fujieda fujieda@acm.org
Sat May 15 09:46:00 GMT 2010


>>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 21:27:16 +0200
>>> Corinna Vinschen said:

>> It should return "5\u6708" in Japanese and "5\uc6d4" in
>> Korea. MSDN in Japanese describes so. It, however, returns "5"
>> in both locales.
>
> Can you please tell us the number of the knowledge base article saying
> so?

There is only a Japanese article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/cc422084.aspx

This article says GetDateTimeFormat returns "1\u6708",
"2\u6708", and so on for the format string "MMM" with the use of
LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME.

> Does this really only affect the lcids 411 and 412?

As far as I know, Yes. 

-- 
Kazuhiro Fujieda
fujieda@acm.org

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