From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 71366 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2016 10:59:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 71340 invoked by uid 89); 29 Mar 2016 10:59:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:std, month, 0200 X-HELO: www.open-std.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:59:00 -0000 From: keld@keldix.com To: Florian Weimer Cc: Rafal Luzynski , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871) Message-ID: <20160329105947.GA28167@www5.open-std.org> References: <1155243857.420233.60a90901-4334-4cea-aa99-f76884316a10.open-xchange@poczta.nazwa.pl> <56FA4490.30402@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56FA4490.30402@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00691.txt.bz2 On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:02:08AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 03/25/2016 01:55 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote: > > > strftime() now implements a %OB format specifier which generates an > > alternative month name. For the languages which require both nominative > > and genitive case of the month names it is expected that it outputs > > the alternative month name which should be a nominative (sic!) case > > or whatever is appropriate when formatting the month names standalone > > (without a day). For those languages %B will return the basic month > > name but from now it is expected to be a genitive case or whatever is > > appropriate when formatting full dates (including both day and month). > > This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month > > name standalone should use %OB from now. For those languages which > > do not use different (nominative and genitive) cases of the month > > name or do not yet have their locales updated %OB will retrieve > > the same string as %B so moving to %OB will be harmless as long > > as the version of glibc which supports this feature is used. > > What's the status here on the POSIX side? It's marked as Accepted in > the tracker, but the changes apparently haven't been folded into > subsequent editions. I would also like to add this to ISO 30112. Do you have text in standardese that could be added to the text? best regards keld