On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 21:06 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: > I may have to apologize for speaking before investigating the > specifics of LC_NAME. > > After looking at these links: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Locale-Information.html#Locale-Information > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/The-Elegant-and-Fast-Way.html#The-Elegant-and-Fast-Way > > I would have to admit that the information in the glibc locale is not > as accessible as I thought it was. To achieve my idealized notion of > locale data accessibility, it is possible that the X/Open upstream > would need to be modified or an LC_NAME equivalent of strftime() > created as you suggest. I guess I’ll have to implement my own parsing/formatting function for the glibc data then. Thanks for looking into this. I’ve filed a bug against glibc to add a common function for formatting names in the future: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641. Philip
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