From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
To: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp>, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 [BZ #23758]
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1574284678.64460.1547836502617@poczta.nazwa.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201901181359.AA04194@tamuki.linet.gr.jp>
18.01.2019 14:59 TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> wrote:
> [...]
> From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2
> [BZ #23758]
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:45:37 -0500
>
> > The thing I was trying to say is that "%Ey" (in the ja_JP locale)
> > produces the number of a year _within_ an era. In this context, the
> > Japanese word I want is not the word for the _name_ of an era, but the
> > word for an era itself. What is that word?
>
> Hmm, I cannot think of the word for an era itself.
I think we can skip the parentheses and their contents completely
if the English text outside is sufficient and the Japanese term is
only bringing confusion.
Regards,
Rafal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-18 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-11 4:48 [PATCH v6 0/2] strftime: Improve the width of alternative representation for year " TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-11 4:50 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 " TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-16 16:17 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-01-17 6:31 ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-17 17:57 ` Rafal Luzynski
2019-01-18 2:46 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-01-18 14:01 ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-18 18:35 ` Rafal Luzynski [this message]
2019-01-18 14:01 ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-18 18:44 ` Rafal Luzynski
2019-01-19 3:52 ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-19 17:08 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-01-19 21:42 ` Rafal Luzynski
2019-01-11 4:53 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] strftime: Pass the additional flags from "%EY" to "%Ey" " TAMUKI Shoichi
2019-01-16 16:18 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-01-17 18:55 ` Rafal Luzynski
2019-01-18 2:32 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-01-17 18:13 [PATCH v7 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 " Rafal Luzynski
2019-01-18 14:01 ` [PATCH v6 " TAMUKI Shoichi
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