[PATCH] Preparing for genitive/nominative month names
Created attachment 349019 Use nominative/genitive months as long as they are supported by the OS
Please don't commit this patch yet unless you really like it. There is indeed a problem in GNOME Calendar as well as in many (most? all?) other applications that they format dates incorrectly in about 20 languages, mostly from eastern Europe. This is not a genuine bug of GNOME Calendar, the root cause is deep in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10871. So in order for this patch to work correctly the bug in glibc must be fixed first. There is also a related bug in glib2: bug 749206.
On the other hand, thanks to the autoconf features this patch is not destructive, simply will not change anything in Linux system. Also, as *BSD systems have been supporting nominative/genitive month names since late 1990s it will start working correctly immediately. So, it's up to you if you want to commit now or wait several months.
Patch 349019, "Use nominative/genitive months as long as they are supported by the OS":
gnome-calendar-nominative-genitive-months.patch
Link to original bug (#780745)
Development Tasks
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Use new glibc pattern for nominative/genitive
QA Tasks
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