[RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)
Dmitry V. Levin
ldv@altlinux.org
Tue Mar 29 14:31:00 GMT 2016
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 01:55:13AM +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
[...]
> This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month
> name standalone should use %OB from now.
Such applications as cal(1) would not be able to print month names
properly in a way that would work with different glibc versions.
Looks like this is a change incompatible in both ways.
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ldv
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