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@@ -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 |