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strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: John Cowan <cowan <at> ccil.org>
Cc: 35920 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck <at> gmail.com>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:06:28 -0400

Hi John,

John Cowan <cowan <at> ccil.org> 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

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