CLDR v38 and en_GB date issues

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Robert!

On 2021-01-12 15:59, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> I ran across an issue with CLDR v38 that may affect the
> unicode-cldr-core package. (I believe the latest package used is v32
> but it's worth being aware of this issue.)
> 
> One of the changes is for en_GB to change the date abbreviation for
> "September" from "Sep" to "Sept".  This will break software that is
> relying on locale information to parse or generate dates, and may
> also break any formatting that expects 3-letter months.

Thanks for calling our attention to that. (What a stupid change! How 
much work will it cause, and what's the upside?)

One thought is that you may want to file a glibc bug, and that way 
involve the glibc maintainers in the discussion about possible consequences:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc;component=localedata

They seem not to have followed CLDR there, at least not yet.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/locales/en_GB;h=5b895574acdeef2349bfe4a7307c3fd23ce612ce;hb=HEAD#l98

Otherwise I think this issue is beyond the scope of software 
translation, and thus not suitable for further discussion on the 
ubuntu-translators mailing list.

-- 
Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

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