From patchwork Thu Feb 1 00:52:23 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Rafal Luzynski X-Patchwork-Id: 25717 Received: (qmail 70582 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2018 00:52:28 -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 70572 invoked by uid 89); 1 Feb 2018 00:52:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-24.9 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=month X-HELO: ano163.rev.netart.pl X-Spam-Score: 0 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 01:52:23 +0100 (CET) From: Rafal Luzynski Reply-To: Rafal Luzynski To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Message-ID: <502158438.112383.1517446343462@poczta.nazwa.pl> Subject: [RFC][PATCH] 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. --- NEWS | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6f3b9b0..b1c06f1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -88,7 +88,15 @@ 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. + + This feature produces any visible changes only in the locales which + provide actual data for "alt_mon" and/or "ab_alt_mon". In this + release the locale data for the following languages have alternative + month names actually provided: 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