The following issue has been SUBMITTED. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1790 ====================================================================== Reported By: steffen Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1790 Category: Base Definitions and Headers Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: steffen Organization: User Reference: Section: langinfo.h Page Number: 276 Line Number: 9587 pp, 9611 pp Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2023-12-01 21:00 UTC Last Modified: 2023-12-01 21:00 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: More info on *ALT* constants Description: The *ALT* series is documented as
alternative appropriate and alternative name which is completely non-descriptive. It seems the intent is that ALTMON_* is Long month names, in the grammatical form used when the month is named by itself. Ditto abbreviated. Ie in the wild (FreeBSD, Linux) and on the Unicode CLDR, but let me just quote a commit message of [email protected] i have seen fly by today, a bit abbreviated: The CLDR specification [1] defines three possible month formats: - Abbreviation (e.g Jan, Ιαν) - Full (e.g January, Ιανουαρίου) - Standalone (e.g January, Ιανουάριος) Many languages use different case endings depending on whether the month is referenced as a standalone word (nominative case), or in date context (genitive, partitive, etc.). sort(1)'s -M option currently sorts months by testing input against only the abbrevation format, which is essentially a substring of the full format. While this works fine for languages like English, where there are no cases, for languages where there is a different case ending between the abbreviation/full and standalone formats, it is not sufficient. For example, in Greek, "May" can take the following forms: Abbreviation: Μαΐ (genitive case) Full: Μαΐου (genitive case) Standalone: Μάιος (nominative case) If we use the standalone format in Greek, sort(1) will not able to match "Μαΐ" to "Μάιος" and the sort will fail. This change makes sort(1) test against all three formats. It also works when the input contains mixed formats. [1] https://cldr.unicode.org/translation/date-time/date-time-patterns Desired Action: If so intended, please adjust the descriptions of the *ALT* series to match CLDR and be more self-descriptive as their are today. ====================================================================== Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2023-12-01 21:00 steffen New Issue 2023-12-01 21:00 steffen Name => steffen 2023-12-01 21:00 steffen Section => langinfo.h 2023-12-01 21:00 steffen Page Number => 276 2023-12-01 21:00 steffen Line Number => 9587 pp, 9611 pp ======================================================================
