[Bug localedata/19066] New: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English

[j.faithw at yahoo dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19066

            Bug ID: 19066
           Summary: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.24
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: j.faithw at yahoo dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

The localedata/locales/ar_SA file has English data for abday and abmon.
I don't know for certain that this is wrong but it probably is.

For reference when I run:-
  for i in `locale -a|grep '^ar_.*\.utf8'`; do
    LC_ALL="$i" date "+$i: day ab:%a full:%A month ab:%b full:%B";
  done

I get the following output:-
  ar_AE.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_BH.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_DZ.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_EG.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_IN.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_IQ.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_JO.utf8: day ab:الاثنين full:الاثنين month ab:تشرين الأول full:تشرين الأول
  ar_KW.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_LB.utf8: day ab:الاثنين full:الاثنين month ab:تشرين الأول full:تشرين الأول
  ar_LY.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_MA.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_OM.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_QA.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_SA.utf8: day ab:Mon full:الإثنين month ab:Oct full:تشرين الأول
  ar_SD.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_SY.utf8: day ab:الاثنين full:الاثنين month ab:تشرين الأول full:تشرين الأول
  ar_TN.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر
  ar_YE.utf8: day ab:ن full:الاثنين month ab:أكت full:أكتوبر

Clearly ar_SA has Mon and Oct which stand out.
I have checked git and English has been used since the earliest version from
2000-02-12. 
As I understand it the raw data that most of the locale files were based on
came from the CLDR many years ago. Looking at the current CLDR(release 28
http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/28/core.zip) the ar_SA.xml file has no variation
from the base ar.xml file.

There is a locale explorer available here
  http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp
the Saudi Arabia link is
  http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=ar_SA

But note that http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/
warns that the source xml data is more up to date than anything else and may
contain more information.

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