[wp-trac] [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:  new       
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  i18n         |     Version:  2.7.1     
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:            
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 Hey there,

 Here's an excerpt from an e-mail I've sent to the wp-polyglots mailing
 list:

 "I wanted to point out the fact that nouns in Polish have variants - it
 depends on the context you use them in. While I can make most of the
 strings fit the context and retain proper Polish syntax there's a problem
 with month names. Let me show you an example: "January" is "Styczeń" in
 Polish and that's all OK for the calendar
 widget's header, but when it comes to "View posts for January 2008" it'd
 have to be "Zobacz wpisy opublikowane w *styczniu* 2008", same with "19
 *stycznia* 2008" instead of "19 Styczeń 2008" (and unfortunately it's
 rather impossible to make a good looking workaround for all of them). It'd
 also be nice if translators could do the same with weekdays.

 I guess the dates are fetched from PHP's date() so implementing such a
 feature would require some planning. It's not a serious issue, though the
 lack of it spoils the impression a bit. :)"

 One idea is to use a switch() condition in combination with date()
 returning a numeric value which would be parsed by the aforementioned
 switch() returning the proper word.

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