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[Bug localedata/10871] ru_RU: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive cases


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10871

--- Comment #21 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:49:01PM +0000, vapier at gentoo dot org wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10871
> 
> --- Comment #20 from Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org> ---
> (In reply to van.de.bugger from comment #19)
> 
> i think you might have missed some of the things Rafal said.  he is correct
> when he said BSD because they already have a format specifier for this: %OB. 
> POSIX does *not* support this today (see the linked POSIX bug report for more
> details) which leads us to the multiple choices he outlined in comment #7.
> 
> i don't think we should create yet another standard -- either we use what BSD
> already has, or we wait for POSIX to come up with one (and we go with his
> suggestion for automatic detection in the mean time since it doesn't break
> ABI).  if you want to extend the standard, please post to the POSIX lists.

We follow ISO TR 30112, and not pOSIX in glibc. POSIX is quite outdated
wrt. i18n, and we cannot conform to POSIX's limited i18n capability.

But we can work on ISO TR 30112 which is under revision.

best regards
keld

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