When you reply to a mail, a text in the form On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:19 +0000 Anna <anna@example.com> wrote: is put in the response mail which is Am Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:05:19 +0000 schrieb Anna <anna@example.com>: in the German localization of Claws Mail (on Linux), however, the name of the month is not correctly translated to German. It must say "Mrz" instead of "Mar". The German short month names are: Jan, Feb, Mrz, Apr, Mai, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Okt, Nov, Dez As they only differ in four months ("Mar" -> "Mrz", "May" -> "Mai", "Oct" -> "Okt", "Dec" -> "Dez"), the bug does not always occur.
And there is also a missing dots after the day of the month and the month. Valid date formats in German are: Montag, den 5. Januar 2018 Montag, 5. Januar 2018 Mo., den 5. Januar 2018 Mo., 5. Januar 2018 5. Januar 2018 5. Jan. 2018 05.01.2018 05.01.18 2018-01-05 18-01-05 Instead of Mrz., Jun., Jul. you can also write März, Juni, Juli. The days of the week are also not correctly translated, they must be: Mo., Di., Mi., Do., Fr., Sa., So.
You don't say what you are using in your Template(s) to produce that line. Use %date_fmt{fmt}, e.g. %date_fmt{%c}. %c is "The preferred date and time representation for the current locale", coming from your system, (strftime), and not claws-mail.
I did not change the default template and my system’s locale is "de_DE.utf8". Claws Mail is compiled against glibc 2.25. The following program #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> int main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { time_t rawtime; struct tm *timeinfo; time(&rawtime); timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime); char buf[255]; strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%c", timeinfo); puts(buf); return 0; } writes "Tue Mar 27 21:19:35 2018" However, the program #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <locale.h> #include <time.h> int main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { char *locale; locale = getenv("LC_ALL"); setlocale(LC_ALL, locale); time_t rawtime; struct tm *timeinfo; time(&rawtime); timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime); char buf[255]; strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%c", timeinfo); puts(buf); return 0; } correctly prints "Di 27 Mär 2018 21:35:12 CEST". So I think, you are just missing a setlocale() call in Claws Mail.
Nope, it works correctly. When starting Claws mail with "LC_ALL=de_DE claws-mail" and using %date_fmt{%c} in the template, I get this: On Di 27 Mär 2018 19:35:41 CEST noreply@thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:
This does not work for me, neither LC_ALL=de, LC_ALL=de_DE nor LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 The UI text is correctly translated and so is the "Am ... schrieb ..." (English: "On ... ... wrote"). Only date and time are not correctly translated. I am using Gentoo Linux with glibc-2.25-r10.
What do "locale" and "locale -a" shell commands print? What does your sample program print if you replace the setlocale() call with this? setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
It also work correctly for me, that's why I said what I said. I specified using %date_fmt{fmt} rather than simply %date.
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