> On 2020-01-28 04:05, Mark Dilger wrote: > > German uses both Sonnabend and Samstag for Saturday, so don’t you have to compare to a list of values anyway? > > Yeah, good point. If it doesn't accept both "Sonnabend" and "Samstag", then > it's not really usable.
The string "Sonnabend" never appears in the glibc sources, so that will certainly not work. I vote not to care about that, but of course my language is not one that has alternate weekday/month names. I guess if we're intent on recognizing alternate names, we'll have to build our own list of them :-(
I don't have the ICU sources here to check the status there.
"Sonnabend" is neither available in ICU.
What is available are both genitive and nominative forms for months, as reported up thread by Peter. See formats "M" and "L" in:
