Peter Münster wrote:
% engine=luatex \startluacode function Monthshort(m) -- os.setlocale("fr_FR.utf8") -- just for testing... tex.print(os.date("%b", os.time({day = 10, month = m, year = 2000}))) os.setlocale("C") end \stopluacode \starttext \ctxlua{Monthshort(\the\normalmonth)} \stoptext
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