[Python-Dev] The date in the generated documentation (original) (raw)

Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Mon Aug 9 04:29:34 CEST 2004

This is probably the strangest question I've ever asked python-dev.

For the Python bug day I updated my CVS, and later on typed "make" in the Doc directory.

I'm now viewing the generated html/lib/lib.html file, and it's displayed in that weird font that Japanese web pages always use, and the top of the document says Release 2.4a2 平成16年8月7日 which is, as nearly as I can tell, a (correct?) Japanese "Emperor Date". http://www.i18nguy.com/l10n/emperor-date.html gives a little explanation for us westerners, the first two characters match the Kanji he gives for the current era (beginning in 1989), and the Western calendar year is now 1989 + 16 - 1.

Also, the strings "Context", "Index", and "About this document" are written in Japanese characters.

This appears to affect the other documents (ref/ref.html, etc) generated as well.

Nothing on my system should be particularly Japanese (my locale is en_US.UTF-8, for example). While I installed a lot of fonts with this system, I haven't done anything else that would lead me to expect this.

The OS is Fedora Core 2 upgraded from FC1 if that helps ring anybody's bell.

The paper-letter/*.pdf files that "make pdf" generates have the proper "August 8, 2004" date in them.

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