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Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 00/13][BZ 10871] Month names in genitive case
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:01:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 00/13][BZ 10871] Month names in genitive case
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On 01/03/2017 03:10 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
I think it would be pretty destructive to the users if we initially
implemented %OB as genitive and %B nominative and then swapped them.
This is quite confusing. *You* want to retroactively change the meaning
of %B and the MON_* values, breaking applications such as Thunderbird
and cal.
Thanks,
Florian