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Day and month name localization uses wrong locale category


  • From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Day and month name localization uses wrong locale category
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:40:15 +0100
  • Message-id: <200611171740.16235.peter_e@gmx.net> <text/plain>

In 8.2, utils/adt/formatting.c uses our NLS mechanism to localize day and 
month names (I assume for use by to_char).  But since this necessarily ties 
the outcome to the LC_MESSAGES setting, this comes out inconsistently with 
Unix locale behavior, e.g.,

pei(at)bell:~$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

pei(at)bell:~$ date +%A
Friday

pei(at)bell:~$ LC_MESSAGES=de_DE(at)euro date +%A
Friday

pei(at)bell:~$ LC_TIME=de_DE(at)euro date +%A
Freitag

Is there no API to get the localized names from the C library so that LC_TIME 
takes effect?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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