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From: Michael Hudson-Doyle via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 2/2] Add generic C.UTF-8 locale (Bug 17318)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:58:17 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ8wqtfnFF71bKhLVGe=g5fjWwGRTprGLQW-5tPCOyjJchHUaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2ff9a8e-60cf-b791-80a3-6ef145c608ad@redhat.com>

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 05:42, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 1/25/22 21:44, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 03:45, Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha <
> > libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
> >
> >> diff --git a/localedata/locales/C b/localedata/locales/C
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000000..ca801c79cf
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/localedata/locales/C
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> > +LC_TIME
> >> +% This is the POSIX Locale definition for the LC_TIME category with the
> >> +% exception that time is per ISO 8601 and 24-hour.
> >> +%
> >> +% Abbreviated weekday names (%a)
> >> +abday       "Sun";"Mon";"Tue";"Wed";"Thu";"Fri";"Sat"
> >> +
> >> +% Full weekday names (%A)
> >> +day         "Sunday";"Monday";"Tuesday";"Wednesday";"Thursday";/
> >> +            "Friday";"Saturday"
> >> +
> >> +% Abbreviated month names (%b)
> >> +abmon       "Jan";"Feb";"Mar";"Apr";"May";"Jun";"Jul";"Aug";"Sep";/
> >> +            "Oct";"Nov";"Dec"
> >> +
> >> +% Full month names (%B)
> >> +mon         "January";"February";"March";"April";"May";"June";"July";/
> >> +            "August";"September";"October";"November";"December"
> >> +
> >> +% Week description, consists of three fields:
> >> +% 1. Number of days in a week.
> >> +% 2. Gregorian date that is a first weekday (19971130 for Sunday,
> >> 19971201 for Monday).
> >> +% 3. The weekday number to be contained in the first week of the year.
> >> +%
> >> +% ISO 8601 conforming applications should use the values 7, 19971201 (a
> >> +% Monday), and 4 (Thursday), respectively.
> >> +week    7;19971201;4
> >>
> >
> > It's obviously a bit late, but this is a difference from the
> Debian/Ubuntu
>
> It is never too late! Thank you for raising this.
>

No worries. Should have got to it sooner but well.


> Given that you've had problems with one application, other applications
> will have problems too.
>
> I think we should probably keep C == C.UTF-8 and not change any of the
> existing LC_TIME properties.
>

As far as I understand these issues (which is not very far) I think this
makes sense.

Cheers,
mwh

      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-30 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-06 15:43 [PATCH v12 0/2] C.UTF-8 Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v12 1/2] Add 'codepoint_collation' support for LC_COLLATE Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 17:20   ` Matheus Castanho via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 17:28     ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07  1:28       ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07  1:57     ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-20 12:49       ` Matheus Castanho via Libc-alpha
2021-09-20 12:54         ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v12 2/2] Add generic C.UTF-8 locale (Bug 17318) Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2022-01-26  2:44   ` Michael Hudson-Doyle via Libc-alpha
2022-01-28 16:42     ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2022-01-30 23:58       ` Michael Hudson-Doyle via Libc-alpha [this message]

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