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Subject:	Re: strftime %b is broken on ja_JP locale
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On May 14 10:55, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 17:31:18 +0200
> >>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> said:
> 
> > No, that's not broken, even if it seems so.  Cygwin fetches the
> > localized strings from the underlying OS, not from a Cygwin-specific
> > locale database.  What you see as results above is what *Windows*
> > returns for the full and abbreviated month strings.
> 
> Windows has a bug in Japanese and Korean locales. In these
> locales, strings reterned by GetLocaleInfoW for
> LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME* miss suffixes representing a month.
> 
> It should return "5\u6708" in Japanese and "5\c6d4" in
> Korea. MSDN in Japanese describes so. It, however, returns "5"
> in both locales.

Can you please tell us the number of the knowledge base article saying
so?  Does this really only affect the lcids 411 and 412?


Corinna

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