Strict mode with without requiring spaces?

[n9]

Some locales contain spaces in its formats. For instance, in cs (D. M. YYYY) spaces were added because it is in cs.wikipedia style.

This causes problems when parsing user input in these locales, people tends to write 1.2.2017 instead of 1. 2. 2017.

What about to add an option to not require spaces in strict mode parsing?

[marwahaha]

@ichernev

[petrbela]

For a little bit more context, the norm ČSN 01 6910 allows either 23. 2. 2016 (with spaces) or 23.02.2016 (with padded 0 without spaces). It's currently implemented so that format('l') produces the former, and format('L') the latter. It's true, however, that a lot of people use the incorrect form 23.2.2016.

[ivosh]

Agreed with @petrbela. Unfortunately, the incorrect form 23.2.2016 is widespread in administration, though.

[ichernev]

You could use localeConfig.preparese to tweak the input so it passes strict. Use updateLocale to patch the relevant locales for you locally.

I'm reluctant to merge this in core.