Alignment in index is broken with Russian locale about neomutt HOT 8 CLOSED

Indeed, it was an abbreviation: "июля" means "of July", and "нояб." is an abbreviation of "of November". I'll run your test when I adapt it (FreeBSD's date has no -d option).

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If it matters, it is Windows Terminal and ssh to FreeBSD.

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And I see the same problem in xterm over VNC.

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Hmm... I think is a library problem.
I think the short month strings aren't all the same length.
The giveaway is the . (dot) in November.

I've seen the same before with a French locale.

Can you try this:

export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
for i in {01..12}; do date -d 2022-$i-01 "+%b %d"; done

I get:

янв 01
фев 01
мар 01
апр 01
мая 01
июн 01
июл 01
авг 01
сен 01
окт 01
ноя 01
дек 01

However with French, it's a mess:

export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
for i in {01..12}; do date -d 2022-$i-01 "+%b %d"; done

janv. 01
févr. 01
mars 01
avril 01
mai 01
juin 01
juil. 01
août 01
sept. 01
oct. 01
nov. 01
déc. 01

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In NeoMutt, you might be able to change the formatting of the date string.

This works but right-aligns:

%{%4b %d}

This ignores the left-align:

%{%-4b %d}

This looks awful, but seems to work:

%-5{%b} %{%d}

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❯ for i in {01..12}; do date -j -f "%m %d" "$i 1" "+%b %d"; done
янв. 01
февр. 01
марта 01
апр. 01
мая 01
июня 01
июля 01
авг. 01
сент. 01
окт. 01
нояб. 01
дек. 01

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%-5{%b} %{%d} in index_format worked, thank you very much!

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Great! You're welcome.

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