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Re: russian locale: month names with the correct casing


Hi Roman,

Today at 18:24, Roman Shiryaev wrote:

> There is one annoying problem with genetive case of full month 
> names in russian. Particularly it can be noticed when using gnu 
> cal program from util-linux package. `cal` or `cal 2004` outputs 
> month names in the genitive -- it is not true. These names 
> should be in the nominative.
>
> Proposed patch (it's against cvs) fixes this issue.

I think you should put this into Bugzilla, so it doesn't get lost or
forgotten:

  http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Though, locale support in GNU libc allows for only one set of names
(i.e. you cannot have a set of names for each declination), so I
understand the choice that was made in current Russian locales.

FWIW, it's probably the case of what's more annoying: having
nominative where genitive should be, or vice versa?  Of course, the
issue is what is more common as well, and I have considered using
genetive for Serbian locales as well, but decided not to mostly for
traditional, and less for practical reasons).

Cheers,
Danilo


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