Paul Eggert wrote: > Ondřej Vašík <[email protected]> writes: > > > as reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525134 by > > Daniel Qarras, ls -l shows iso long format for en_* locales. > > I just now read that Bugzilla report, and the diagnosis and the > patch do not seem correct. The diagnosis says: > > > In ls.c (case locale_time_style) is dcgettext (NULL, long_time_format[i], > > LC_TIME); ... that translates the string, but the translation is THE SAME as > > the default - as the format is the same for en_* locales. > > But that is not what the ls.c source code does. The code does this: > > char const *locale_format = > dcgettext (NULL, long_time_format[i], LC_TIME); > if (locale_format == long_time_format[i]) > goto case_long_iso_time_style; > > The "==" test returns true when dcgettext returns the msgid (its 2nd > argument) because it finds no translation. If it found a translation, > dcgettext would return a different string, so the "==" test would > return false, and the code would use the translation. Even if the > translation has the same _contents_ as the msgid, it will have a > different _address_, so the code is correct as-is and does not need > this modification.
Ah, sorry... you are right, the address should be different, so the code
is correct, I got confused somehow.
>
> Also, the proposed patch would use U.S. styles for all English
> locales, which certainly is not right.
>
> I suspect the diagnosis given by Jim Meyering in comment #3 at that
> bug report is correct, and that something is going wrong at install
> time.
But as Pádraig wrote in the reply, there are no translation for en_*
languages, so long iso style is used - which is imho wrong. The patch is
fixing it (although it seems to be only a workaround and wrong
approach). Better would be to have translations even for en_* locales in
some cases - like this. This is better way than this workaround... Is it
possible add those translations?
Sorry for noise...
Greetings,
Ondřej
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