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[Bug localedata/9859] New fr_FR locale month abbrevs abmon are not fixed length


------- Additional Comments From ebb9 at byu dot net  2009-03-20 15:55 -------
POSIX 2008 added the requirement for supporting field widths in strftime, but
also makes it explicit that field widths for anything other than C, F, G, and Y
is implementation-defined.  Why not define the glibc implementation of strftime
to allow:

%5b

as requesting an expansion to a string with any necessary leading space to
occupy 5 columns (note that this is different than padding to 5 bytes), in
locales such as French with variable-spaced abmon.  That way, translators could
once again provide a string that occupies fixed width when used in ls -l output,
by requesting that strftime pad the short months to the same column width of the
longer abbreviations, regardless of multibyte characters encountered during that
padding.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00258.html


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