short day translations vs cldr entries

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Feb 9 09:21:00 GMT 2016


On 02/09/2016 08:53 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> should glibc localedata conform entirely to what is in cldr ?
> some examples of why i ask this:
> 
> German languages in glibc use:
>   Son;Mon;Die;Mit;Don;Fre;Sam
> but the CLDR uses:
>   So;Mo;Di;Mi;Do;Fr;Sa

The two-letter abbreviations are correct for day-to-day use.  Unless
three-letter abbreviations are required in the glibc context for some
reason, we should switch to the CLDR list.

Florian



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