From c10c9a5efedc11ec6e905571cf02d8f152a5761e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafal Luzynski Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 01:45:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ NEWS | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a5847a5a23..d99f54224d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2018-02-01 Rafal Luzynski + + [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 [BZ #22765] diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6f3b9b0c8b..5c27f5c332 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -88,7 +88,14 @@ Major new features: 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