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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: 35920@debbugs.gnu.org,
	"Christopher Lam" <christopher.lck@gmail.com>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:06:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e92k70r.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RLJ=23ygURB87nhGM_QVOa_SX7Adxtm_whCSpzMi6G-A@mail.gmail.com> (John Cowan's message of "Sun, 30 Jun 2019 18:37:26 -0400")

Hi John,

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> writes:

> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch.  It's not that
> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to
> handle the locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekday name,
> AM/PM, and the ordering of dates).

Is there a portable way to find the relevant locale files and interpret
them, on both POSIX and Windows systems?  If so, can you point out the
relevant documentation?

      Thanks,
        Mark





  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-30 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-05-26 20:41                   ` bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8 Mark H Weaver
2019-05-26 20:53                     ` Mark H Weaver
2019-05-26 21:48                       ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-30 19:51                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-30 21:12                           ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-30 22:37                             ` John Cowan
2019-06-30 23:06                               ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-07-01  1:28                                 ` John Cowan
2019-07-02  8:58                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-02  9:07                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-02 16:51                               ` John Cowan
2019-05-27  0:04                     ` Christopher Lam

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