[Bug localedata/22848] ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR

["keld at keldix dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22848

--- Comment #9 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
The abmon strings are made for posix utilities so they
can display aligned coloumns like in ls -l 
Abmon strings should not be used for real language displays.
The long forms are intended for natural language display.

It was never the meaning of POSIX i18n that there should not be non-English
support for listings like ls -l

I think the use of CLDR data here i erroneous.
Unicode data was never intended for POSIX utilities.

Best regards
Keld


On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:10:50PM +0000, egmont at gmail dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22848
> 
> Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> changed:
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> --- Comment #8 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail dot com> ---
> (In reply to Robert Buj from comment #6)
> 
> > [robert@fedora temp]$ ls -ltr --time-style="+%e %_11B %H:%M"
>                                                    ^^^
> 
> printf-style width and precision always counts bytes rather than characters,
> let alone display width. So if you need aligned output in non-English context,
> you should refrain from using them.
> 
> Aligning long month names doesn't even work with English names:
> 
> $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /tmp/coreutils-8.29/src/ls -ltr --time-style='+%B'
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 January file01
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 February file02
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 March file03
> [...]
> 
> Checking in another language (with varying length and various accents for
> short/long month names) the output is automatically properly aligned with short
> month names, but not with long ones:
> 
> $ LC_ALL=hu_HU.UTF-8 /tmp/coreutils-8.29/src/ls -ltr --time-style='+%b'
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 jan   file01
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 febr  file02
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 márc  file03
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 ápr   file04
> [...]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 aug   file08
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 szept file09
> [...]
> 
> $ LC_ALL=hu_HU.UTF-8 /tmp/coreutils-8.29/src/ls -ltr --time-style='+%B'
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 január file01
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 február file02
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 március file03
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 április file04
> -rw-r--r-- 1 egmont egmont 0 május file05
> [...]
> 
> Since strftime() obviously cannot have any clue about the other dates you have
> called this method with, and are about to call this method with; the nice
> alignment of abbreviated month names must be done by ls. In coreutils/src/ls.c,
> you find the relevant code in line 1100-ish (v8.29), around abmon_init().
> 
> I think it should be brought up on the coreutils mailing list to do the same
> with the full month names too (and BTW for both the genitive and nominative
> variants).
> 
> The correctness of your proposed patch (which I cannot comment on) shouldn't
> depend on this, and your patch shouldn't be blocked by ls's limited aligning
> capabilities.
> 
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