From patchwork Thu Feb 1 10:22:33 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Rafal Luzynski X-Patchwork-Id: 25719 Received: (qmail 27202 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2018 10:22:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 27189 invoked by uid 89); 1 Feb 2018 10:22:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-24.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, GIT_PATCH_0, GIT_PATCH_1, GIT_PATCH_2, GIT_PATCH_3, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=D*ru, month X-HELO: ano163.rev.netart.pl X-Spam-Score: 0 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:22:33 +0100 (CET) From: Rafal Luzynski Reply-To: Rafal Luzynski To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Message-ID: <291636735.120420.1517480553078@poczta.nazwa.pl> Subject: [COMMITTED][PATCH v2] NEWS: List the languages which use the alternative months. MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Client: com.openexchange.ox.gui.dhtml [BZ #10871] * NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" are optional. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ NEWS | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a5847a5..d99f542 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2018-02-01 Rafal Luzynski + + [BZ #10871] + * NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative + months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and + "ab_alt_mon" are optional. + 2018-01-31 Il'ya Malakhov [BZ #22765] diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6f3b9b0..5c27f5c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -88,7 +88,14 @@ Major new features: In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the - same syntax as "mon" and "ab_mon". + same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they + are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon", + respectively. + + These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or + "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such + alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian, + Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already