#2242 closed defect (wontfix)
DateFormat: weekday and month names in UTF-8 are abbreviated incorrectly
| Reported by: | Andrey | Owned by: | Adrian Holovaty |
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| Component: | Core (Other) | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | aela@… | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Currently the abbreviation is done like this: WEEKDAYS[self.data.weekday()][0:3]. This does not work in case of UTF-8 or other multibyte encoding.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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Let me explain in more detail. When I am using "D" format and current weekday is "Среда" ("Wednesday" in Russian), I am expecting to get something like "Срд" (which is what strftime returns for "%a" format), or at least "Сре" (which is simple truncation to three characters). But all I get is some garbage like "С�", because UTF-8 string is just truncated to 3 bytes.
Well, ASCII-speaking users may be quite happy with it, but not me and other users of UTF-8. :) Anyway, this misfeature should at least be documented to avoid further bug reports.
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Isn't the "D" format string coupled to English by its very nature? I'm fine with this staying the way it is, unless somebody has a really good reason otherwise.