Re: ls - French translation of N_("%b %e %Y")

[Bruno Haible]

Eric Blake wrote:
> It specifically states that results are unspecified for
> other things, like %b, where there could be more bytes than screen
> columns.  Which means we should be free to interpret things in the way
> that makes the most sense, by interpreting %5b as five screen columns
> rather than 5 bytes.

I wish you could convince the glibc maintainers to implement strftime
this way. But I don't give it much chances, because it would be a change
away from current glibc behaviour, and current glibc behaviour coincides
with the POSIX wording ("bytes").

Bruno