[wp-hackers] Weekday abbreviations and localization

[Ryan Boren]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:34 +0200, Luca Lizzeri wrote:
> The way localization is handled right now creates some problems for the 
> weekday abbreviations:
> 
> In Italian we have:
> tuesday -> martedì
> wednesday -> mercoledì
> thursday -> giovedì
> 
> The one word abbreviations, with the one-letter translations, become:
> t -> m
> w -> m
> t -> m (instead of g)
> 
> This is unsatisfying. I am using the following hack in my installation 
> at http://www.wikilab.net

That's a known bug that I really need to get around to fixing.  That
hack does not work for multi-byte languages.

Ryan

> 
> --- template-functions-general.php.orig    2004-06-14 17:05:00.000000000 
> +0200
> +++ template-functions-general.php    2004-07-01 10:26:50.812500000 +0200
> @@ -367,13 +367,8 @@
>      <thead>
>      <tr>';
>  
> -    $day_abbrev = $weekday_initial;
> -    if ($daylength > 1) {
> -        $day_abbrev = $weekday_abbrev;
> -    }
> -
>      foreach ($weekday as $wd) {
> -        echo "\n\t\t<th abbr=\"$wd\" scope=\"col\" title=\"$wd\">" . 
> $day_abbrev[$wd] . '</th>';
> +        echo "\n\t\t<th abbr=\"$wd\" scope=\"col\" title=\"$wd\">" . 
> $wd[0] . '</th>';
>      }
>  
>      echo '
> 
> Cheers,
>     Luca Lizzeri