Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 03/24/2016 08:55 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> Some languages (Slavic, Baltic, etc.) require a genitive case of the
> month name when formatting a full date (with the day number) while
> they require a nominative case when referring to the month standalone.
> 
> 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.
> 
> strptime() now accepts both nominative and genitive month names.

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Carlos.