[wp-hackers] Weekday abbreviations and localization

[Ryan Boren]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:23 +0200, Luca Lizzeri wrote:
> Ryan,
> 
> >That's a known bug that I really need to get around to fixing.  That
> >hack does not work for multi-byte languages.
> >  
> >
> So, would this be better, or is mb_substr not deployed widely enough ?

It's not deployed widely enough.  Plus, some languages such as Hebrew
use a different letter than the first letter in the day name when
abbreviating that day down to one letter.  So, sub-string operations are
out.

Ryan

> --- template-functions-general.php.orig	2004-06-14 17:05:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ template-functions-general.php	2004-07-01 11:20:35.703125000 +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\">" . mb_substr($wd, 0, 1) . '</th>';
>      }
>  
>      echo '
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>     Luca Lizzeri
> 
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Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu>