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authorRafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>2017-09-19 00:00:22 +0200
committerRafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>2018-01-22 11:26:55 +0100
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Documentation to the above changes (bug 10871).
[BZ #10871] * manual/locale.texi: Document ALTMON_1..12 constants for nl_langinfo. Specify when to use ALTMON instead of MON. * manual/time.texi (strftime, strptime): Document GNU extension permitting O modifier with %B and %b. Specify when to use %OB instead of %B. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -69,6 +69,30 @@ Major new features:
collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
+* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
+ In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
+ produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
+ of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
+ required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
+ and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
+ in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
+
+ In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
+ are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
+ name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
+ nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
+ the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
+ constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
+ used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
+
+ 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".
+
+ 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
+ available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated