Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 12:11:14 +0000
From: "Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group"
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| It made it to the list, but the lack of an answer probably means
| nobody who read it can answer it.
Yes...
However, I was looking at XRAT (from the current standard)
today (for unrelated reasons) and...
| > > In draft 2.1 (and the current spec) strftime's %Ou modified spec is
described as:
| > >
| > > %Ou Replaced by the weekday as a number in the localeâs alternative
representation
| > > (Monday=1).
| > >
| > > Should that say "as a number using the locale's alternative numeric
symbols"?
| > > Otherwise the definition is circular.
came across XRAT A.7.3.5 (LC_TIME) which happens to include this
statement:
It can be noted that the above example is for illustrative purposes only;
the %O modifier is primarily intended to provide for Kanji or Hindi digits
in date formats.
That's on page 3532 (lines 119660-1 aside from the leading "It" which is
on line 119659). I haven't checked Issue 8 Draft 2.1, but I cannot see
any reason that section would have changed.
I also cannot imagine that only Kanji or Hindi is intended there, just for
systems that don't use arabic digits (0 1 2 ...).
kre
ps: I agree that this is still largely a WG14 issue.
