MLO RTE window dialog parsing bug?

[Joel Azaria]

Hey all,

When parsing dialog in the RTE window or properties pane, days of the week Tuesday and Thursday aren't parsed properly.  Here is what I've observed:

The abbreviation 'tues' is interpreted as Thursday.  'tue' is interp'd correctly

Only 'thu' is accepted for Thursday.  Neither 'thur' nor 'thurs' is interpreted as anything at all.

Is this true for anyone else?

I see this as a bug (or major shortcoming) in the parsing routine as these are very common abbreviation forms and MLO should accommodate the user in whatever form they use.  Picking up 'tues' as Thursday is just outright a bug.

Please confirm if you can reproduce.

Thanks.

[pottster]

I believe this is intended behaviour.

In the MLO User's Guide. section 9.3 Input parsing page 105, states....

Complete list of reserved words:
1) The week day names (short and long) in English and in your current locale (Mon, Monday, .. Sun,
Sunday)

I'm taking this to mean that the only supported forms of parsing are the full day name or the three letter abbreviation.

[Joel Azaria]

Thanks Pottster.  You might be right, it might be this way 'by design'.  That doesn't mean it isn't a problem nor that it should be ignored.

I submit it's an issue and I want to see how others feel.  (1 user, Brian, has already responded in the beta group where I accidentally posted this first)

Personally it's a problem - don't make me think.  Further, it'll be a problem for new adopters/users.  It's not that I/they couldn't learn - it's that MLO is supposed to make my life easier, not force me to remember a bunch or archaic shite.  Thurs is the natural/universal  and likely most oft thought of abbreviation for Thursday (followed by Th.)  Not many ppl I know typically abbrev Thursday as thu.  And in 2015 there really shouldn't be any reason not to parse all natural language forms of the day/date abbreviations.

That's my 2c.

I'd like to hear everyone else's.

thx.