id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
14570	New format character to represent locale-specifc alternative month names	shell_dweller	nobody	"== Why this is required ==

In certain locales ""F"" is not enough to represent full month name in long date formats. The reason is that ""F Y"" (e.g., ""October 2010"") and ""F j Y"" (e.g., ""October 1 2010"") will require two different grammatical forms for month name.

This patch is useful for Greek and the majority of Slavic languages. Other languages may find use of it too.

== Solution ==

New format character is introduced to represent alternative locale specific month names. The choice of character is ""E"". Rationale: alphabetically it is the closest one to ""F"" that represents full month name.

== TODO ==

After this patch is committed to trunk I will create a patch for documentation and will notify translators.

== Historical note ==

This is a duplicate of ticket 12309 that was created and subsequently closed by me. At the time I reckoned that it would be better to use Babel for locale specific date representations. However, after careful consideration I changed my mind and I do believe this is a useful addition to Django because it follows batteries included principle, specially in view of new format localization rules introduced in 1.2"		closed	Internationalization	dev		fixed	month, format	s.kuzmenko@… claude@…	Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0