On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 22:49 +0100, Piotr Drąg wrote:
> 2018-02-21 12:49 GMT+01:00 Philip Withnall <withn...@endlessm.com>:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > (I’m not subscribed to the list, so please CC me in replies.)
> > 
> > As discussed previously[1], nominative/genitive month name support
> > has
> > come to GLib. We’ve got a few unit tests which depend on
> > translations
> > existing for the new month name strings[2] which are currently
> > broken
> > due to the new strings being missing in the following locales:
> >  • fr_FR
> >  • el_GR
> >  • hr_HR
> >  • lt_LT
> >  • ru_RU
> > 
> > There’s also this bug[3] which requires the same updates in ja_JP.
> > 
> > Could the translation teams please prioritise updating the month
> > name
> > strings in GLib? Both for the sake of making the tests pass, and
> > for
> > making sure users in your locale get correctly-translated month
> > names.
> > In locales with no nominative/genitive difference, you still need
> > to
> > update the translations to avoid the C-locale string being used in
> > the
> > new context.
> > 
> > For many languages, this will be a case of copying the existing
> > strings
> > from one context to the other, unchanged. Those languages which
> > have a
> > difference between nominative and genitive forms will have to be a
> > bit
> > more careful. Typically, the strings should be the same as the
> > output
> > of `locale mon` on a system running the latest glibc release.
> > 
> > If anybody has any questions about the translations, let me or
> > Rafal
> > know.
> > 
> 
> Reminder for *every* translation team: you should update strings from
> glib/gdatetime.c in GLib to avoid a chance of English dates in the
> next GNOME release. Languages which won’t get an update soon will get
> a commit from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commits/wip/piotrdr
> ag/missing-months
> merged.

I have merged that branch to GLib master, so it will be in the 2.56.0
release. There is still time for translation teams to update the
strings there before the release, if you spot any problems with them.

(Please CC me in any replies as I am not subscribed to gnome-i18n.)

Thanks,
Philip

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