[Bug localedata/25639] Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in Occitan

quentinantonin at free dot fr sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Thu Mar 19 11:17:55 GMT 2020


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25639

--- Comment #5 from Quentin PAGÈS <quentinantonin at free dot fr> ---
(In reply to Rafal Luzynski from comment #3)
> I've posted a patch here: [1] As I said, it is not meant to be complete.  I
> understand there are some obvious typos which must be fixed ASAP.
> 
> (In reply to Quentin PAGÈS from comment #2)
> > April has two forms, both are okay.
> > https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/abril#oc
> 
> It looks to me like "abril" is preferred while "abrial" being an alternative
> spelling.  What do you think?
> 
> > Dimarç is wrong, [...]
> 
> Can you please report it to CLDR?
> 
> > To finish, July has two forms too... julh and julhet
> > It may be a good idea to use «julh» for the short form of the month instead
> > of «jul.»
> > https://locongres.org/oc/aplicacions/dicodoc-oc/dicodoc-
> > recerca?option=com_dicodoc&view=search&Itemid=168&type=fr-
> > oc&dic%5B%5D=BASIC&dic%5B%5D=RBVD&dic%5B%5D=ALPC&dic%5B%5D=ATAU&dic%5B%5D=PRO
> > V&dic%5B%5D=PNST&dic%5B%5D=OMLH&dic%5B%5D=LAUS&dic%5B%5D=LAGA&dic%5B%5D=LEMO&
> > q=juillet&q2=&submit=Cercar
> 
> I have added your suggestion to the patch although I hesitate.  From your
> sources again it looks to me like "julhet" is the preferred form. 
> Consequently, "jul." or "julh." (with a trailing dot) should be an
> abbreviated form of "julhet" since all other abbreviated forms hare a
> trailing dot.  The abbreviation "julh" (without a dot) would look good to me
> only if "julh" was a full form (a case when the full form is so short that
> we don't need to abbreviate it at all).
> 
> Again, I can't speak Occitan, this is just my guessing and I leave the final
> decision to the experts.
> 
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-March/111785.html

Yes your reasoning is good to keep jul.
About abril/abrial, well in standard it's the same, I think Abril is more used
than Abrial. I don't have a preference nor an advice on it.
Many thanks for your work!

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