Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> writes:

> The fact that standard C library can supply translated month names but
> cannot supply translated day names means the limitation of this model,
> because the idea that we will need to translate month names while we
> will not need to translate day names is Euro-American-centered idea.
> Using gettext will supply better solution.  (In general, strftime()
> can supply a good solution but now we have a limitation of column
> numbers.)

Huh?  In the "Euro-American-centered" world, day names are different
in each language.