Hi, Daniele B. wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 06:17:21PM +0100:
> I just came accross the last little problem regarding the locale of my > system: in Claws Mail the date in message pane is displayed in %x > format (result=mm/dd/year) to adapt to the current locale. > > I started to change locale to my system in all the possible ways > without luck. If I set it_IT I got yes the right language but the same > result for the date (in the message pane). > > In the end going in Claws Mail display settings the option allows me > to specify the parameters for the date format. "man strftime" I found > something useful (an year/mm/dd), although not exactly a simple > dd/mm/year format yet. > > Dispite these details and knowing that en_US.UTF-8 with "C" locale > profile is reccomnded to us, I take the time to gently ask about > the support for any european date locale profile and any feedback > about any eventual work-in-progress? Even if someone would provide libc patches to provide LC_* support other than LC_CTYPE, i would veto them, even if they were correct and very simple (they cannot be simple, though). Reliable and predictable output is much more important than such quibbles. The C library is totally the wrong place for any such functionality. Yours, Ingo
