Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

[Paul Eggert]

"Bo Borgerson" <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it
> possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info?

Yes.  I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils.
This is for LC_MESSAGES but a similar thing could be done for LC_TIME.

The diffutils message translations are to display appropriate symbols
for copyright ("©" rather than "(C)") and for authors' names (Torbjörn
Granlund).  Also, it rewrites "illegal" to "unrecognized" in a context
where POSIX requires the word "illegal" even though the GNU project
prefers to reserve "illegal" for things that are actually illegal.
Perhaps coreutils could do something similar there, too, after the
next stable release goes out.