From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 120816 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2018 11:50:06 -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 120795 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2018 11:50:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-25.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_0,GIT_PATCH_1,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Glibc X-HELO: mail-qt0-f179.google.com Return-Path: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NEWS: Avoid the words "nominative" and "genitive". To: Rafal Luzynski , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <1656545809.435941.1532684630776@poczta.nazwa.pl> <1290992034.436125.1532684872492@poczta.nazwa.pl> From: Carlos O'Donell Message-ID: <4019d5a0-5fdf-45db-bd07-4bd98fe34bb4@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:50:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1290992034.436125.1532684872492@poczta.nazwa.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00943.txt.bz2 On 07/27/2018 05:47 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote: > Glibc supports two grammatical forms of month names and we keep adding > the locale data which actually use this feature but those two forms are > not necessarily nominative and genitive. It is better to use a more > generic term. > --- > NEWS | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) OK for 2.28/master. Please commit. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index b08fee6..c946ba2 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Major new features: > - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and > fMxdivfNx functions. > > -* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following > +* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following > languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian, > Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now > - support abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian. > + support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek, > + and Kashubian. > > * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also > - include the support of the nominative and genitive month names. > + include the support for two grammatical forms of month names. > > * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree > patches. >