bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2018-03-06 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/06/2018 02:42 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote: So the only thing that needs to be done for coreutils is to bump the version of Gnulib module used and make sure that the most recent glibc is used. Thanks for letting us know. I installed the attached into coreutils master and marking this bug as

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-14 Thread Andries E. Brouwer
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > It also looks like the POSIX wording is very specific on which > of the two forms is genitive vs nominative In general such words (like genitive) are not appropriate. Different languages have different systems of flection, and the situ

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/13/2015 01:17 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > The functionality already works in FreeBSD, for example: > > $ LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8 date +"%d %B %Y" > 13 Φεβρουαρίου 2015 > $ LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8 date +"%OB %Y" > Φεβρουάριος 2015 > > It was implemented for Greek in 2001: > https://bugs.freebsd.or

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:20:58PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > Coreutils will automatically pick up any fixes in glibc, you'll need to > > get it fixed there first. It would be nice to get POSIX to standardize > > %OB, but that would be easier if you could first get glibc to imple

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Coreutils will automatically pick up any fixes in glibc, you'll need to > get it fixed there first. It would be nice to get POSIX to standardize > %OB, but that would be easier if you could first get glibc to implement > the solution to show that it makes sense. FreeBSD has long implem

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Eric Blake
[adding the Austin Group, as this is a POSIX question] On 02/13/2015 06:46 AM, Nick & John wrote: > Hello we are Nick Barkas and Ioannis Barkas from Greece. There is an > annoying error in the date command for quite some time when using > Greek locale. Thanks for the report. > If date is instruc

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Paul Eggert
If I understand correctly, it doesn't appear that this is a bug that coreutils can fix, as POSIX implies (and many programs expect) that formats like %d and %B and %Y act independently of context. If it's any consolation, the default output of 'date' in the C locale: Thu Jun 28 15:10:00 PDT 20

bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

2015-02-13 Thread Nick & John
Hello we are Nick Barkas and Ioannis Barkas from Greece. There is an annoying error in the date command for quite some time when using Greek locale. If date is instructed to print month and day of month, the translation is wrong and looks funny... You have to be able to write Greek in order to und