[Bug localedata/23140] More languages need two forms of month names

Keld Simonsen keld@keldix.com
Tue Jun 26 05:28:00 GMT 2018


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:43:23PM +0000, digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23140
> 
> --- Comment #39 from Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com> ---
> (In reply to keld@keldix.com from comment #35)
> > If month (and day) names are not capitalized, then the should not be
> > capitalized in our
> > locales, even if they often appear first in a sentence. [...]
> 
> OK, good news: I have managed to contact an Armenian native speaker and he
> agrees that the month names should be lowercased.  This convinces me and I will
> proceed with the patch.

Good. You are of cause rigth in saying that we do not have a way to capitalize such
names. But then let us make a way to do it. My thoughts are to make some 
format specifier to change the first character til uppercase, both for
month and day names, and their abbreviations. I don't have a specific
proposal - but maybe a + somewhere could  do it. What do you think?

Best regards
keld



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