Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

[Micah Cowan]

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Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Bo Borgerson" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Is it
>> possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info?
> 
> Yes.  I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils.
> This is for LC_MESSAGES but a similar thing could be done for LC_TIME.
> 
> The diffutils message translations are to display appropriate symbols
> for copyright ("©" rather than "(C)") and for authors' names (Torbjörn
> Granlund).  Also, it rewrites "illegal" to "unrecognized" in a context
> where POSIX requires the word "illegal" even though the GNU project
> prefers to reserve "illegal" for things that are actually illegal.
> Perhaps coreutils could do something similar there, too, after the
> next stable release goes out.

Do you really do this by hand?

I do something similar for Wget, but use sed to do it for me (along with
proper directional quotes), basically just extending the existing tools
for automatically creating address@hidden and address@hidden:

(our quot.sed:
http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/raw-file/d6307ac6eb46/po/quot.sed)

An en_US.po is also copied from address@hidden in our Rules.quot.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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