[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21139: Month format in Publish box

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#21139: Month format in Publish box
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 Reporter:  pavelevap     |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N          |    Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 New translatable month format was introduced in r19820.

 Problems:

 1) Month numbers are not localized. Czech does not use numbers with format
 01, 02, etc. I can remove month numbers by "not translating" them, but it
 is not the best solution.

 2) How should be strings "May_May_abbreviation" translated in the right
 way? I found that some languages uses for example
 "Kvě_Květen_abbreviation" translation and others only "Kvě". Translators
 are probably afraid of removing "_May_abbreviation" part because they do
 not want to broke anything even if there is preg_replace function
 following. I do not understand why there has to be the whole
 "May_May_abbreviation" original string? Also explanation for translators
 (three-letter abbreviation of the month) is not exact, because we can use
 2 (better for Czech) or any other number of characters.

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