[Bug localedata/192] New: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[Bug localedata/192] New: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[egmont at uhulinux dot hu]

In Hungarian the official abbreviation of some monthnames are longer than 3
chars (4 or 5). Please see the attached patch.

Is it right to have month name abbreviations that are longer than 3 chars in
libc? It causes troubles in some applications, e.g. mc goes stupid, and listing
within ncftp and "ls -l --time-style=locale" looks a bit silly. However, IMHO
it's better if libc provides correct monthnames and the application does some
workaround if it cannot handle more than three chars.

Furthermore, if there existed a format string to strftime() which told to
display %b in no more than 3 chars, it would help applications (e.g. mc).
(Please consider this a feature request :-)

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           Summary: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.3.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: pere at hungry dot com
        ReportedBy: egmont at uhulinux dot hu
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug localedata/192] monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[egmont at uhulinux dot hu]

------- Additional Comments From egmont at uhulinux dot hu  2004-05-31 11:44 -------
Created an attachment (id=96)
 --> (http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=96&action=view)
correct hungarian month name abbrevs


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[Bug localedata/192] monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[pere at hungry dot com]

------- Additional Comments From pere at hungry dot com  2004-07-21 07:25 -------
Hungarian is not the only locale with month apprevations longer than
3 chars.  The nn_NO locale have one "lau " value in LC_CTIME:abday, while the rest of the strings are thre chars.
I'm not sure if it is a good thing.  As you mention, a lot of programs
expect all week day apprevations to have the same length - 3 chars.

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[Bug localedata/192] monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2005-10-14 20:27 -------
There is nothing wrong with longer abbreviations.  The important thing is they
are understandable by the audience.  The rest are bugs in the applications
making wrong assumptions.

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                 CC|                            |drepper at redhat dot com
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID


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------- Additional Comments From egmont at uhulinux dot hu  2005-10-17 10:39 -------
I admit that my description is not fully clear, but take a look at the patch,
it is in the reverse way than you think.

Currently glibc uses 3 letter abbreviations for all the hungarian months,
though the correct would be a 4 or 5 letter abbrev for some of them (febr,
márc, szept). If there's nothing wrong with them (as you say) then please
commit this patch. Thanks! :)


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         Resolution|INVALID                     |


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[Bug localedata/192] monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2006-05-01 17:55 -------
Applied to CVS.

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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