https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42607
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Bug #: 42607
Summary: Tablesorter sorts all numbers as dates in Czech
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=9352755
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: i18n
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: JavaScript
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Blocks: 31601
Classification: Unclassified
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The table sorting feature is currently quite broken in Czech, apparently
because the tablesorter considers (almost) any number to be a calendar date.
(See the linked URL and click e.g. the “Sčítání 2001” column.)
The sorter constructs the date-matching regex as
^\\s*\\d{1,2}[\\,\\.\\-\\/\'\\s]*(' + regex_for_months + ')' +
'[\\,\\.\\-\\/\'\\s]*\\d{2,4}\\s*$
The problem in Czech is triggered by the fact that we do not use alphabetic
abbreviations for short month names, but just month numbers, i.e. our final
regex looks like
^\s*(\d{1,2})[\,\.\-\/'\s]*(leden|1|únor|2|březen|3|duben|4|květen|5|červen|6|červenec|7|srpen|8|září|9|říjen|10|listopad|11|prosinec|12)[\,\.\-\/'\s]*(\d{2,4})\s*$
And because the separators are qualified with *, i.e. optional, the regex
considers e.g. “123456” to be, in fact, something like “12/3/456”, i.e. “March
12, 456”. Which is obviously silly.
Do we really want to write dates as e.g. “1Dec2012”, so that we would need the
* there? Wouldn’t + be better? (Or, at the very least, check whether
wgMonthNamesShort is not numeric, and do not add it into the regex if it is.)
On the other hand, the date recognition does not really work for Czech, anyway.
In dates, we use the genitive month names (e.g. “1. prosince 2012”, not “1.
prosinec 2012”), see Language::mMonthGenMsgs.
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