[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10066: Issues with timezone picker in RC1

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#10066: Issues with timezone picker in RC1
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 Reporter:  xibe          |       Owner:  ryan       
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  2.8        
Component:  i18n          |     Version:  2.8        
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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 I should have seen it earlier, but while making a quick test of the fr_FR
 translation with RC1, I noticed two issues in the TZ picker.

 Note: the "wordpress-continents-cities.pot" has been translated (albeit
 partially) into "continents-cities-fr_FR.po" for a long time now, and is
 up to date with that latest POT.

   - some continents names are not translated, even though they are in the
 local po/mo. In fact (I find this out while making a list of the faulty
 continents), ALL of them are untranslated, SAVE for the first one:
 "Africa" does show up as "Afrique".

   - cities are not alphabetically sorted after translation. The fr_FR has
 issues which I attributed to special characters (like strings starting
 with 'Île' (Island) showing on top (or not!), then I stumbled upon this
 gem (there might be others): Douala  >
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Aai%C3%BAn El Aaiun] > Freetown is
 displayed as Douala > [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%A2youne
 Laâyoune] > Freetown. Please not that, following
 [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003434.html
 Nikolay's advices], Douala and Freetown are left untranslated in the fr_FR
 po/mo. In short, they are displayed with the original sorting. Dunno if
 the non-translations is what is breaking things.

 Attached picture shows the whole Atlantic continent as displayed in
 2.8-RC1 with the latest fr_FR translation. I added 'Île' to some of the
 entries, and this get 'Île' scattered around in the continent's sub-list.

 These are not blocker items, but still, it makes for some strings being
 moved around in the list, which can prove untidy.

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