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[Bug localedata/525] russian locale: month names with the correct casing


------- Additional Comments From patrakov at ums dot usu dot ru  2005-07-07 11:05 -------
In my previous comment, the summary is correct, and the proposed doc update is
wrong.

Other Cyrillic locales (e.g uk_UA, be_BY) use nominative case here, so "%B %Y"
works, "%d %B %Y" produces gramatically incorrect result in those locales. So
the proposed patch at least makes the behaviour consistent across Cyrillic
locales (but still not perfect). If you apply the patch, please add to texinfo
documentation for %B:

"use of %B together with %d produces grammatically incorrect results for some
locales".

If you don't apply the patch, please add this to documentation (sorry for the tone):

"use of %B together with %d produces grammatically incorrect results for some
locales (e.g. be_BY.UTF-8) and use of %B without %d produces grammatically
incorrect results in other locales (e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8). Thus, please don't use %B
if you want the program's output to be grammatically correct in all locales."

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