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=over

=item Can we rely on the fact that the locale implementation will
return "bytes" in the given charset (encoding)?

=item Is the %OB extension of L<POSIX/strftime> supported?

=back

The results make me believe that one should not use POSIX-based
locales for dates, but rather use L<DateTime::Locale>.

=head2 RESULTS

 * Solaris 10:
   * does not understand %OB
   * %B seems to return the genitive form
   * the "short" locale names seem to link to the non-utf8 forms (iso-8859-1 or so)
   * encoding seems to match the locale charset
   * all Serbian variants are cyrillic
 * FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0, 7.2: