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Re: [patch] 21.1 CVS ls-lisp.el -- Correct dired listing in w2k
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Pavel Janík |
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Re: [patch] 21.1 CVS ls-lisp.el -- Correct dired listing in w2k |
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Sun, 06 Jan 2002 13:05:21 +0100 |
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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 20:19:35 +0200
> > ! ;; It's unfortunate, that `strftime' down not return
> > ! ;; 3-character month abbreviation in w32 system.
> > ! ;; We cut the month here if the Month here manually.
> > ! (substring (format-time-string "%b" time) 0 3)
>
> I really don't think this is a good idea: how do we know that the
> first 3 characters of a month name in an arbitrary language give an
> unambiguous abbreviation, or even something sensible at all?
I agree, e.g. in Czech we have:
June = červen
July = červenec
ie. first six characters are same.
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Pavel Janík
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