bug#80142: inconsistent capitalization in Vietnamese dates

Collin Funk <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:28:54 -0800

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Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes:

> $ LC_ALL=vi_VN.UTF-8 date
> Thứ tư, 07 Tháng 1 năm 2026 09:21:28 CST
> ... tư, .. Tháng....................... <T= controversial words
> According to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Vietnam
> it needs either more capitals, or more lower case.

Interesting.

The abbreviated weekdays are returned by nl_langinfo from glibc, so it
would have to be reported there.

Based on my searching the capitalization varies by source, but I don't
know Vietnamese so I am unqualified to say which is correct.

Collin