From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2640 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2016 13:36:20 -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 2613 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2016 13:36:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dates, harmless, sic, luzynski X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871) To: Rafal Luzynski , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <1155243857.420233.60a90901-4334-4cea-aa99-f76884316a10.open-xchange@poczta.nazwa.pl> <56FA4490.30402@redhat.com> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: <9ad2c26f-9fe3-150c-ec84-a5ed73fba5c2@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56FA4490.30402@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00159.txt.bz2 On 03/29/2016 11:02 AM, 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. This question has never been answered. I think it's quite relevant to whether we can accept the patch or not. Florian