Months

These programs are to test how months are displayed on different versions of Linux with different locales. Also it's worth noting that its behaviour may depend on the glibc version installed. I'm currently working on providing some new features to nl_langinfo() and strftime() families. These features will work on the newest (patched) systems only but binaries built for older systems should work on newer systems without any change. For more details and patches see: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10871

Building

Just type:

    make

Due to differences between system I encourage you to build on multiple systems and then copy binaries to another system. If you haven't got multiple computers then you can set up a virtual machine. If you can't set up a virtual machine then you can build and run under mock configured to simulate some older version of Linux. You can also use any other chroot or LD_LIBRARY_PATH techniques to simulate running under a different version of Linux.

Running

    ./months

will display all month names

    ./today

will display today's date. Note if the date is displayed correctly, if the month name is correct according to your language rules.

Then test under different locales:

    LANG=<language>_<territory>.<encoding> ./months
    LANG=<language>_<territory>.<encoding> ./today

Examples are: LANG=pl_PL.utf8, LANG=cs_CZ.utf8, LANG=uk_UA.utf8, LANG=ca_ES.utf8, and so on. If LANG does not work try LC_ALL. If utf8 does not work try UTF-8.