[Bug localedata/23140] More languages need two forms of month names

["digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23140

--- Comment #9 from Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com> ---
(In reply to Michael Wolf from comment #8)
> Hi Rafał,
> 
> thank you for your reply.
> 
> Well, you are right, Sorbian languages use the month names in genitive in
> dates if the day is specified:
> [ cut ]

OK, count them as about to be supported.

> [...]
> Strftime() uses such placeholders: %d. %B %Y. %B cannot be inflected so "w
> %B" would result in "w meja" instead in correct "w meji". 

True, this is not supported. But please note that this is a sentence, or almost
a sentence rather than just a date. This does not work in any inflected
language. We need a place where we say "this is too complex for glibc, please
use a translation software or an AI instead". :-)

> Another problem would occur if any software is intended to use the OS locale
> for date and time. There is no operating system in Sorbian languages until
> now. That's a problem of many minority languages.

You are just invited to create one. :-) Really not much is left to do. In fact,
HSB has been supported in glibc for a long time now except this bug with a
correct grammar of dates.

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