NEWS: List the languages which use the alternative months.

[BZ #10871]
	* NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative
	months feature in this release.  Also explain that "alt_mon" and
	"ab_alt_mon" are optional.
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2018-02-01 Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
[BZ #10871]
* NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative
months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and
"ab_alt_mon" are optional.
2018-01-31 Il'ya Malakhov <ilmalakhov@yandex.ru>
[BZ #22765]

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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".
same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
respectively.
These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
"ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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