Package: locales Version: 2.8+20080809-3 Severity: normal
Hello, locales version 2.8 switched from version 4.3 to 4.4 of fr_FR. The changes in the file are mostly to the abbreviations, and in my view to the worse. - Month name abbreviations were changed from a fixed three letter length (jan, féb, etc.) to variable length, ranging from 3 (mai) to 5 (juil., avril). - A period was added to all weekday abbrevs, increasing from 3 to 4 letters (but this time keeping it fixed). Working in text mode this is enough of a nuisance to make me switch to an English locale, where all abbrevs are still 3 letter, without period, as I believe is the standard. Would you consider reverting to the old fr_FR ? Cheers, Itai BEN YAACOV -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.8-1] 2.8+20080809-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: fr_FR.UTF-8 * locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8, he_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
