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

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

--- Comment #32 from Piotr DrÄg <piotrdrag at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to van.de.bugger from comment #25)
> 3. %OB is not just BSD extension, it is also ugly hack which likely does not
> solve the problem. BSD offers only two cases for month name â %B and %OB,
> while in Russian language a noun has six cases, in Finnish â more than
> dozen. I am not a linguist and not aware about other languages, but it is
> obviously 2 cases cannot cover all the needs.
> 

I don't think glibc is intended to be used to construct natural sentences, in
which case we would need support for every single case in every single
language. I don't think that's realistic or needed.

Instead, there are two applications: to show time and date, and to show a
calendar. Using just standalone and format versions of the month names (or
nominative and genitive) covers both uses.

Extending it would amount to overengineering a solution to a non-existing
problem, while Rafal's proposition elegantly resolves a real-world, severe
problem.

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