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[Bug localedata/9859] New fr_FR locale month abbrevs abmon are not fixed length
- From: "ebb9 at byu dot net" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 20 Mar 2009 15:55:33 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/9859] New fr_FR locale month abbrevs abmon are not fixed length
- References: <20090217205038.9859.aurelien@aurel32.net>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From ebb9 at byu dot net 2009-03-20 15:55 -------
POSIX 2008 added the requirement for supporting field widths in strftime, but
also makes it explicit that field widths for anything other than C, F, G, and Y
is implementation-defined. Why not define the glibc implementation of strftime
to allow:
%5b
as requesting an expansion to a string with any necessary leading space to
occupy 5 columns (note that this is different than padding to 5 bytes), in
locales such as French with variable-spaced abmon. That way, translators could
once again provide a string that occupies fixed width when used in ls -l output,
by requesting that strftime pad the short months to the same column width of the
longer abbreviations, regardless of multibyte characters encountered during that
padding.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00258.html
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9859
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