Re: [PATCH v2] localedata: Updates for Taiwanese locales [BZ #24409]

[Wei-Lun Chao <bluebat@member.fsf.org>]

Dear Shoichi,

Thanks for your explanation.
I'll drop this part of patch.

TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> 於 2021年5月16日 週日 下午6:04寫道：
>
> Hello Wei-Lun-san,
>
> From: Wei-Lun Chao <bluebat@member.fsf.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] localedata: Updates for Taiwanese locales [BZ #24409]
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 11:53:38 +0800
>
> > > > Rationale:
> > > > * Header cleanup: make the header of localedata files consistent
> > > > * Remove space (abmon): remove the extra prefix space in abmon 1~9
> > >
> > > Why are you trying to remove the extra prefix space in abmon 1..9?
> > > By fixing the display width of abbreviated month names (%b) in the
> > > same way as "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", ..., it has the effect of making the
> > > display width constant, such as system log.
> > > I don't think we should remove the leading space in abmon 1..9.
> >
> > Without this patch, "date +%b" will output with a leading space for month 1..9.
> > And the day number makes the display width inconstant already.
> > So I think single space would be a better separator.
>
> The elements defined in (ab)mon and (ab)day in the current *_TW locale
> are summarized in the attached file mon+day.png.  In each locale, the
> display widths of mon (%B) and abday (%A) can change, while the
> display widths of abmon (%b) and abday (%a) are constant.
>
> Date and time notations such as logs and form lists may sometimes be
> in RFC2822 (%a, %d %b %Y %T %z) or ctime (%a %b %d %T %Z %Y) format
> with local locales.
>
> With this patch, these display widths will change in *_TW locale,
> even though the display width of each conversion specification that
> makes up them is intended to be constant.  Please see the attached
> file ctime.png.
>
> Regards,
> TAMUKI Shoichi