[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24899: Date_i18n: translate shorthand months and weekdays

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#24899: Date_i18n: translate shorthand months and weekdays
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 Reporter:  Daedalon      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N          |    Version:  3.5.2
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Date_i18n allows months and weekdays to be shown in shorthand formats, but
 those are always forced to be three letters long. That's correct for
 English and several other languages, but wrong for many.

 An example of proper shorthands in Finnish:
 "January" -> "Jan" - "Tammikuu" -> "Tammi" (5 letters, varies between 3-6)
 "Monday" -> "Mon" - "Maanantai" -> "Ma" (2 letters, always the same)

 At the moment date_i18n( 'D M', $timestamp ) always returns a result that
 isn't appropriate in these languages:
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-ar.js Arabic],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-az.js
 Azerbaijani], [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-el.js Greek],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-et.js Estonian],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-fa.js Farsi],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-fi.js Finnish],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-he.js Hebrew],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-hr.js Croatian],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-hu.js Hungarian],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-hy.js Armenian],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-id.js
 Indonesian], [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-ko.js Korean],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-lt.js
 Lithuanian], [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-pl.js Polish],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-ta.js Tamil],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-th.js Thai],
 [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-vi.js Vietnamese]
 and [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-
 manager/tags/5.4.4/includes/js/i18n/jquery.ui.datepicker-zh-CN.js
 Chinese]. Half the population of the planet.

 Instead of 'D' returning a three letter weekday and 'M' returning a three
 letter month, they should return the localized shorthand weekday and
 shorthand month regardless of length.

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