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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mikhail Gribanov <mikhail.gribanov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Incorrect days of the week in ru_UA locale
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* Mikhail Gribanov:

> Hi, sorry if I wrote the wrong way, I did not find who to contact to
> fix this problem.
>
> Preamble: Many linux distributions use the wrong day of the week in
> ru_UA locale and close my bug reports because of "out of scope". After
> some searching I managed to find out that localization is taken from
> glibc. I hope you can help me (or send to the right place).
>
> Problem: In ru_UA locale for days of the week the abbreviation with
> three letters is used, which is incorrect: "=D0=9F=D0=BD=D0=B4", "=D0=92=
=D1=82=D0=BE", "=D0=A1=D1=80=D0=B4"...
>
> Solution/Fix: Use two-letter abbreviations:"=D0=9F=D0=BD", "=D0=92=D1=82"=
, "=D0=A1=D1=80", "=D0=A7=D1=82",
> "=D0=9F=D1=82", "=D0=A1=D0=B1", "=D0=92=D1=81". You can also just copy da=
ys of the week from ru_RU
> locale where are they represented correctly.

Does the choice have political implications?  uk_UA locale uses
three-letter month abbreviations, I think.