[Remind-Fans] Problem with German month names in remind scripts

Simon Ruderich simon at ruderich.org
Tue Sep 14 15:34:04 EDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:17:34PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Your patch is almost correct (I've put a corrected version at the end of
> this message.)

Thanks for your quick reply, it works fine for me. Will this get
included in future version of remind? Is there a VCS with
unreleased changes?

> But I recommend against using non-English month names, etc.  This will
> make your file less portable.  It will only work with a version of Remind
> compiled for German.

Yes, you're right, that's a good idea. I was just curious why it
didn't worked, as the man page suggested it would. But I will use
English names from now on.

> (I think it was a misfeature for Remind to accept localized names on *input*
> and it might be removed in a future version.)
>
> Regards,
> David.

Thanks,
Simon
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