* [COMMITTED][PATCH v2] NEWS: List the languages which use the alternative months.
@ 2018-02-01 10:22 Rafal Luzynski
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From: Rafal Luzynski @ 2018-02-01 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libc-alpha
[BZ #10871]
* NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative
months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and
"ab_alt_mon" are optional.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
NEWS | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a5847a5..d99f542 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-02-01 Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
+
+ [BZ #10871]
+ * NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative
+ months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and
+ "ab_alt_mon" are optional.
+
2018-01-31 Il'ya Malakhov <ilmalakhov@yandex.ru>
[BZ #22765]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f3b9b0..5c27f5c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -88,7 +88,14 @@ Major new features:
In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
- same syntax as "mon" and "ab_mon".
+ same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
+ are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
+ respectively.
+
+ These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
+ "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
+ alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
+ Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
--
2.7.5
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