Package: wmtime
Followup-For: Bug #726125
The real problem is that wmtime try to transliterate an
abbreviations for the day of week and months with libiconv.
But iconv has limited support for transliteration
and can not do it for many languages.
For example:
> echo "Вс" | iconv -f UTF8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -
??
This is Russian, and I would expect "Vs".
There is more advanced tool "konwert" and it works perfectly
> echo "Вс" | konwert UTF8-ascii
Vs
but it is not obvious how to connect it with wmtime.
Probably the old idea to keep possible abbreviations
in /use/share/wmtime/"language" is not bad at all.
As a simple solution I would prefer to have additional
flag to switch off any attempt to transliterate and
use English names.
The patches (rather simple) are in the attachment.
Regards, Yuri
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wmtime depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
wmtime recommends no packages.
wmtime suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- ../wmtime-1.0b2/wmtime/wmtime.1 2013-10-15 14:05:44.000000000 +0400
+++ ./wmtime.1 2013-10-15 14:05:25.526108646 +0400
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@
.IR X(7x) .
.TP
+.BR \-l
+Disables the locale support and use English abbreviations for
+the day of week and months.
+
+.TP
.BR \-n , \ \-noseconds
Disables the second hand.
--- ../wmtime-1.0b2/wmtime/wmtime.c 2013-10-15 14:05:44.000000000 +0400
+++ ./wmtime.c 2013-10-15 14:05:25.546108815 +0400
@@ -108,12 +108,13 @@
void printversion(void);
void wmtime_routine(int, char **);
-void get_lang();
+void get_lang(void);
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i;
char *name = argv[0];
+ int use_lang = 1;
for (i=1; i<argc; i++) {
char *arg = argv[i];
@@ -135,6 +136,9 @@
return 1;
}
break;
+ case 'l' :
+ use_lang = 0;
+ break;
case 'n' :
if (strcmp(arg+1, "noseconds") && strcmp(arg+1,
"n")) {
usage(name);
@@ -153,8 +157,9 @@
}
}
- if (setlocale(LC_ALL, "") != NULL)
- get_lang();
+ if (use_lang)
+ if (setlocale(LC_ALL, "") != NULL)
+ get_lang();
wmtime_routine(argc, argv);
return 0;
@@ -670,6 +675,7 @@
printf(" -d, -digital display the digital clock\n");
printf(" -display DISPLAY contact the DISPLAY X server\n");
printf(" -geometry GEOMETRY position the clock at GEOMETRY\n");
+ printf(" -l, use English abbreviations for date\n");
printf(" -n, -noseconds disables the second hand\n");
printf(" -h display this help and exit\n");
printf(" -v output version information and exit\n");
