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bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8 |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:06:28 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi John,
John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch. It's not that
> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to
> handle the locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekday name,
> AM/PM, and the ordering of dates).
Is there a portable way to find the relevant locale files and interpret
them, on both POSIX and Windows systems? If so, can you point out the
relevant documentation?
Thanks,
Mark