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Iran/Persian/Farsi date parsing fail
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Description
I am trying to parse a date in Farsi and the call fails
> dateparser.parse('۳ یولیو ۲۰۱۴', languages=['fa'])
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What am I doing wrong? I tried to find a test but there is none for Farsi.
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Research direction
Reproduce the Farsi example dateparser.parse('۳ یولیو ۲۰۱۴', languages=['fa']) and inspect the existing language parsing tests and Farsi support. Done means the example returns the expected date and a regression test covers this input.
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- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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