Re: date zh_TW.Big5 +%P

[Paul Eggert]

Abel Cheung <address@hidden> writes:

> About detection of multibyte string, is there any
> better method than retrieving LC_TIME and
> lookup the charset inside a predefined array
> containing known multibyte charset?

Sorry, I don't quite follow, but I was assuming that we could do
something straightforward, namely, use mbrlen to detect whether we are
looking at a multibyte character.  strftime already does this to parse
the format string, so I assume it can also do it to parse the am/pm
string.