[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9396: Month name declension

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#9396: Month name declension
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 Reporter:  waclawjacek            |        Owner:  nbachiyski
     Type:  enhancement            |       Status:  reopened  
 Priority:  normal                 |    Milestone:  2.8       
Component:  i18n                   |      Version:  2.7.1     
 Severity:  minor                  |   Resolution:            
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |  
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Comment(by waclawjacek):

 Replying to [comment:10 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > >  * '''Separate strings for everything''' - allow the translators to
 translate month names wherever they appear (separate string for every
 month in every spot).
 >
 > No no, I think you're not understanding. The underlying technology is
 GNU gettext. So WP is limited to that, and that only. Underneath, the
 January string used to localize the results of date() is a January string
 -- taken completely out of context.
 So gettext ignores duplicate occurrences of strings? I mean, let's say you
 allow the translators to translate "January" in one spot and then in
 another, would gettext ignore the latter and just use the translation of
 the former?

 > >  * '''Add an argument optionally passed to date_i18n() occurrences'''
 - every time a month name should be inflected - pass an argument telling
 the function which variant of a month name it should return
 >
 > That's pretty much what my plugin does. You scan for, say, d in the
 string, and if present you deduce it's something like 1st of January, and
 you override the thing accordingly using a plugin.
 Yeah, I just wanted to make a workaround without using plugins, because
 wouldn't it look kind of nasty to have a "Polish locale support etc. etc."
 plugin installed? It just seems to me that the only plugins a user should
 run should supply a site with additional features, not what they have to
 run in order for a WordPress component to work properly.

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