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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329143132.GA28928@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155243857.420233.60a90901-4334-4cea-aa99-f76884316a10.open-xchange@poczta.nazwa.pl>

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 01:55:13AM +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
[...]
> This means that all applications using %B to retrieve the month
> name standalone should use %OB from now.

Such applications as cal(1) would not be able to print month names
properly in a way that would work with different glibc versions.
Looks like this is a change incompatible in both ways.


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ldv

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25  0:55 Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29  9:02 ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-29 10:59   ` keld
2016-11-04 13:36   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-05 10:42     ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29 14:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-03-29 23:23   ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-03-29 14:31 ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2016-03-29 23:31   ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-01 10:42     ` Dmitry V. Levin
2016-06-01 21:51       ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-01 22:20         ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-01 23:54           ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-06-02  7:03             ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-03  7:08               ` Rafal Luzynski

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