Bug#327025: C locale has bad default for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:40:56PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: I filed it against the locales package first since I assumed the fix was in the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX, which is in the locales package. This has to be fixed even when no locales are compiled, so locale data files can not help here. Reassigning to libc6 sounds fine, but are you sure the bug is in the locale and localedef programs? Isn't it in the library source itself? Right, the patched file locale/C-time.c is also built into the library, so this oneliner fix everything. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#327025: C locale has bad default for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.5-6
Severity: normal
The _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY symbol, when passed to nl_langinfo, is
supposed to give the first day of the week. This seems to work
correctly for most locales. However, the results for the POSIX locale
seem odd. I think it would make more sense for POSIX to default to
Sunday as the first day of the week, rather than Saturday.
$ gcc -o test test.c
$ ./test
POSIX: Saturday
en_US: Sunday
en_GB: Sunday
es_ES: Sunday
nl_NL: Sunday
fi_FI: Monday
I've attached the sample code that generates the above.
--
gram
#include langinfo.h
#include locale.h
#include stdio.h
#include time.h
void
foo(const char *s)
{
struct tm tm;
char buf[16];
setlocale(LC_ALL, s);
tm.tm_wday = *nl_langinfo(_NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY) - 1;
setlocale(LC_ALL, C);
strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), %A, tm);
printf(%s: %s\n, s, buf);
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
foo(POSIX);
foo(en_US);
foo(en_GB);
foo(es_ES);
foo(nl_NL);
foo(fi_FI);
return 0;
}
Bug#327025: C locale has bad default for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: Package: locales Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: normal The _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY symbol, when passed to nl_langinfo, is supposed to give the first day of the week. This seems to work correctly for most locales. However, the results for the POSIX locale seem odd. I think it would make more sense for POSIX to default to Sunday as the first day of the week, rather than Saturday. $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test POSIX: Saturday en_US: Sunday en_GB: Sunday Hi Graham, you are fully right, but technically this is a bug in locale and localedef programs, which belongs to the libc6 package. I do not know whether it makes sense to reassign it. This bug has been reported upstream http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181 on 2004-05-25 with a patch, hopefully upstream will give a comment soon :-/ Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#327025: C locale has bad default for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY
reassign 327025 libc6 thanks On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: The _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY symbol, when passed to nl_langinfo, is supposed to give the first day of the week. This seems to work correctly for most locales. However, the results for the POSIX locale seem odd. I think it would make more sense for POSIX to default to Sunday as the first day of the week, rather than Saturday. you are fully right, but technically this is a bug in locale and localedef programs, which belongs to the libc6 package. I do not know whether it makes sense to reassign it. This bug has been reported upstream http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181 on 2004-05-25 with a patch, hopefully upstream will give a comment soon :-/ I filed it against the locales package first since I assumed the fix was in the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX, which is in the locales package. Reassigning to libc6 sounds fine, but are you sure the bug is in the locale and localedef programs? Isn't it in the library source itself? -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
