Subject: Re: bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:06:28 -0400

Hi John,

John Cowan <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch.  It's not that
> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to
> handle the locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekday name,
> AM/PM, and the ordering of dates).

Is there a portable way to find the relevant locale files and interpret
them, on both POSIX and Windows systems?  If so, can you point out the
relevant documentation?

      Thanks,
        Mark