[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #44722: Double escape issue on translated wordpress.org/team/ for some locales

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#44722: Double escape issue on translated wordpress.org/team/ for some locales
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 Reporter:  cbrandt       |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Date/Time     |    Version:
 Severity:  minor         |   Keywords:  has-screenshots needs-patch
  Focuses:  javascript    |
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 Forgive the simplicity of this first bug report, done by a non-developer.

 Dates are being shown wrongly on the /team/ page belonging to certain
 locales of wordpress.org.

 Where the English language date string is {{{F j, Y}}}

 The pt-BR locale at [br.wordpress.org/team/] would have {{{j \d\e F \d\e
 Y}}}

 However, the text on the page, for `March 21, 2018`, reads `21 \21\-03:00
 março \21\-03:00 2018` in what looks like a double escaping issue.

 A similar issue was also found on [es.wordpress.org/team/]. Not every
 locale opted to include a connector (`de`) that needed escaping, therefore
 this issue is not seen, for example, on [fr.wordpress.org] or
 [it.wordpress.org].

 We did not do a comprehensive search, more locales may be affected.

 We did an attempt at trying to find a translation that may have a double
 escape wrongly inserted on the string, {{{j \\d\\e F \\d\\e Y}}}, which
 would result in the malformed strings we see on the final page, but could
 not find any for pt-BR.

 The correct timestamp, untranslated, is present at the HTML code of the
 page. So we think this may be a Javascript function somewhere down the
 pipe adding the second escape and causing this issue.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44722>
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