From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19350 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2016 14:39:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 18586 invoked by uid 48); 17 Jan 2016 14:38:43 -0000 From: "piotrdrag at gmail dot com" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/10871] ru_RU: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive cases Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 14:39:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: critical X-Bugzilla-Who: piotrdrag at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2016-q1/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D10871 --- Comment #32 from Piotr Dr=C4=85g --- (In reply to van.de.bugger from comment #25) > 3. %OB is not just BSD extension, it is also ugly hack which likely does = not > solve the problem. BSD offers only two cases for month name =E2=80=94 %B = and %OB, > while in Russian language a noun has six cases, in Finnish =E2=80=94 more= than > dozen. I am not a linguist and not aware about other languages, but it is > obviously 2 cases cannot cover all the needs. >=20 I don't think glibc is intended to be used to construct natural sentences, = in which case we would need support for every single case in every single language. I don't think that's realistic or needed. Instead, there are two applications: to show time and date, and to show a calendar. Using just standalone and format versions of the month names (or nominative and genitive) covers both uses. Extending it would amount to overengineering a solution to a non-existing problem, while Rafal's proposition elegantly resolves a real-world, severe problem. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.