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Re: [RFC][PATCH v8 08/16] Let alternative month names be a copy of regular ones (bug 10871).
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 23:12:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v8 08/16] Let alternative month names be a copy of regular ones (bug 10871).
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 06/28/2017 06:05 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > If alt_mon definition is missing from a locale then let it be
> > a copy of mon array. Majority of languages do not need this feature
> > so let us accept the locale definition file without alt_mon and
> > provide the same content as mon when software requires alt_mon.
>
> This seems a reasonable policy, but it should be documented.
It's essentially *required* (by the fact that we suppose building locale
definition sources that follow existing versions of POSIX, which won't use
a feature that's only added in a bug tagged issue8, i.e. for the next
major revision of POSIX), and putting any other text in there clearly be
worse than copying mon. (It still makes sense to document this
consequence of supporting existing POSIX versions, if there's somewhere
suitable to document it.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com