[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33716: Remove the locale abbreviation hacks

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#33716: Remove the locale abbreviation hacks
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 Reporter:  johnbillion  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |    Version:  1.5
 Severity:  minor        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 `WP_Locale` uses two nasty hacks for weekday initials and month
 abbreviations which involve appending a string to the abbreviations in
 order to make them unique.

 These were introduced in [1518] and [2232] to fix #10 and #722
 respectively.

 I think it's time we switched to the dedicated `_x()` function, which is
 intended for this purpose. Is there any reason not to do this?

 @ocean90 Is this something we can update in the existing translations
 database to avoid the need for re-translation?

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