[RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)

[Florian Weimer]

On 03/29/2016 11:02 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 01:55 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>
>> strftime() now implements a %OB format specifier which generates an
>> alternative month name.  For the languages which require both nominative
>> and genitive case of the month names it is expected that it outputs
>> the alternative month name which should be a nominative (sic!) case
>> or whatever is appropriate when formatting the month names standalone
>> (without a day).  For those languages %B will return the basic month
>> name but from now it is expected to be a genitive case or whatever is
>> appropriate when formatting full dates (including both day and month).
>> This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month
>> name standalone should use %OB from now.  For those languages which
>> do not use different (nominative and genitive) cases of the month
>> name or do not yet have their locales updated %OB will retrieve
>> the same string as %B so moving to %OB will be harmless as long
>> as the version of glibc which supports this feature is used.
>
> What's the status here on the POSIX side?  It's marked as Accepted in
> the tracker, but the changes apparently haven't been folded into
> subsequent editions.

This question has never been answered.  I think it's quite relevant to 
whether we can accept the patch or not.

Florian