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[Bug localedata/192] New: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?
- From: "egmont at uhulinux dot hu" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 31 May 2004 11:43:58 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/192] New: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com
In Hungarian the official abbreviation of some monthnames are longer than 3
chars (4 or 5). Please see the attached patch.
Is it right to have month name abbreviations that are longer than 3 chars in
libc? It causes troubles in some applications, e.g. mc goes stupid, and listing
within ncftp and "ls -l --time-style=locale" looks a bit silly. However, IMHO
it's better if libc provides correct monthnames and the application does some
workaround if it cannot handle more than three chars.
Furthermore, if there existed a format string to strftime() which told to
display %b in no more than 3 chars, it would help applications (e.g. mc).
(Please consider this a feature request :-)
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Summary: monthname abbrev more than 3 chars?
Product: glibc
Version: 2.3.3
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: pere at hungry dot com
ReportedBy: egmont at uhulinux dot hu
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192
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