The glibc version 2.30 was released–according to the schedule–on August 1, 2019. The changes in the locale data are not big, most of them are related with but not limited to calendars support. Let’s look at the details, and also let’s take a look at the version 2.29.
On 1 May 2019 a new era of the Japanese calendar will begin. Fedora is ready for this change. What This Is All About 1 December 2017 the Emperor of Japan Akihito officially announced that he would abdicate on 30 April 2019. From 1 May his successor Naruhito will rule which will also begin a …
See also: glibc 2.26: New and updated locales, glibc 2.27: New and updated locales. New version 2.28 of glibc library has been released according to the schedule, that means on August 1, 2018. This time the changes in locale support are not revolutionary. Most of them just continue the works started and partially completed in the previous versions. Alphabetic Collation …
See also: glibc 2.26: New and Updated Locales. The new version glibc 2.27 has been released on February 1, 2018 (or February 2, depending on your time zone). This is the much belated report of the new changes in locale support. Collation Major rework has been started on the correct alphabetic sorting using ISO 14651:2016 standard (click here …
Continuing my previous article I’d like to write about the more recent updates in date formats in glibc. These updates will be included in Fedora 28 final release. On March 29 a new version of glibc 2.27-8 has been released in f28 branch. Together with the unreleased version 2.27-7 it features the correct date formats in Czech, Catalan, Greek, and Lithuanian. …
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This time this is not fake, edited, patched, nor a custom build from COPR but the real screenshots of the unmodified downstream Fedora 28 planned to be released on May 1 this year. Here is how the default calendar widget in GNOME Shell looks in Greek, Polish, and Ukrainian: For those who can’t speak those languages: the major change …
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People learn from errors. Therefore bugs should be made public, not hidden. GLib is a utility library originally developed for GNOME but also used by other projects. One of many functions it provides is g_date_set_parse(). It is really smart and simple. It accepts a string to parse but other than many date parsing functions it …
For the second time in a short period of time I participated in an important Fedora event. November 20–22, 2017, an Internationalization FAD was organized by a group of Fedora contributors from Red Hat Pune. FAD stands for Fedora Activity Day, it is a mini-conference. It differs from large conferences like Flock because it is …
Linux Autumn is an annual Polish conference dedicated to the free software and GNU/Linux. This year it was its 15th edition and this time it was held in Muflon Leisure Center in Ustroń. Shortly speaking: the conference was interesting but my participation was limited due to a virus¹ attack. Day #1: September 22 Not much …
On March 13, 2017 the new version 1.18 of MATE Desktop was released. One of the last minute changes in the project was pulling the most recent translations from Transifex. Usually this is a good thing but apparently for the Polish language this turned out to be a little disaster because the plural rules have …
