@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-02-01 Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
+
+ [BZ #10871]
+ * NEWS: List the languages which actually use the alternative
+ months feature in this release. Also explain that "alt_mon" and
+ "ab_alt_mon" are optional.
+
2018-01-31 Il'ya Malakhov <ilmalakhov@yandex.ru>
[BZ #22765]
@@ -88,7 +88,14 @@ Major new features:
In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
- same syntax as "mon" and "ab_mon".
+ same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
+ are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
+ respectively.
+
+ These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
+ "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
+ alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
+ Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already