Ubuntu
glibc package

Lowercase months in Portuguese language

Bug #1490298 reported by Ivo Xavier on 2015-08-30

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GLibC	Unknown	Unknown	sourceware-bugs #19133
	glibc (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

Due to some modifications made to our mother language back in 2012. The months passed to be written with lowercase.

Example:

Quarta-feira, 29 de Julho de 2015 (before 2012)

quarta-feira, 29 de julho de 2015 (since 2012)

Where we can (translator community) fix this? We've been searching, but we can't deal with it.

This is one bug we can't fix or solve for the ubuntu touch.

Please, gives us some additional information on this subject.

Thanks!
Ivo Xavier - Ubuntu Portuguese Translators

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Ivo Xavier (ivoxavier) wrote on 2015-08-30:

screenshot20150729_122036043.png Edit (339.5 KiB, image/png)

description:

updated

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2015-09-27:

I would have expected these strings to come from glib. But "July" seems to be uncapitalized as "julho" in glib20. <https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+source/glib2.0/+pots/glib20/pt/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=july>

But then, "Wednesday" is translated in glib20 not as "quarta-feira", but as "4ª feira", so I guess indicator-datetime is getting these strings from somewhere else. <https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+source/glib2.0/+pots/glib20/pt/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Wednesday>

A site search <https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=quarta-feira+site%3Atranslations.launchpad.net> reveals a few other projects with capitalized weekday names, but none that indicator-datetime would be using.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-10-14:

that's part of the locale

affects:

indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) → langpack-locales (Ubuntu)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-10-14:

the locale has

mon "<U004A><U0061><U006E><U0065><U0069><U0072><U006F>";/
"<U0046><U0065><U0076><U0065><U0072><U0065><U0069><U0072><U006F>";/
"<U004D><U0061><U0072><U00E7><U006F>";/
...

those describe the letters for the months and are capital letters

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-10-14:

should be reported to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/report.cgi

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2015-10-15:

Ivo,

The link which Sebastien provided is the place where this should be reported at first hand.

Product: glibc
Component: localedata

You should include some evidence about the change in the bug report, such as a link to some writing guide of an authoritative source.

Once you've filed a bug there, can you please post a link to it here. Then there is a chance that we can fix it in Ubuntu before they do it upstream.

Does this affect Brazilian Portuguese as well?

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Ivo Xavier (ivoxavier) wrote on 2015-10-15:

I've already opened it : https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19133

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2015-10-15:

Excellent, thanks! It's too late to change it in 15.10, but in 16.04 it will be fixed.

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Ivo Xavier (ivoxavier) wrote on 2016-06-27:

I think the bug is fixed in: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19133

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2016-06-27:

#10

On 27/06/16 20:46, Ivo Xavier wrote:
> I think the bug is fixed in:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19133

It is. Also, since you submitted this bug report, the locale data have been moved in Ubuntu from the langpack-locales source package to glibc. Hence the upstream fix will soon be reflected in Ubuntu. Can't tell if it will happen in 16.10, though.