questions about strftime

strftime seems to be lacking some features that the normal date command has.. i have some suggestions.. these are in regard to php4RC1.. (1) date has 'n' (month without leading 0) and 'j' (days without leading 0) and strftime has only %d and %m .. these are with leading zeros.. is it possible to make extra specifiations so we can choose to not have the leading zeros? (2) the suffix is missing from strftime, 'S' in the date function.. can this be implemented? (3) when strftime uses the german (de_DE) locale, high german characters (äöü) are directly written when showing the day and month.. shouldnt this be written in html format? such as ü ö etc.. (4) can we customize the 'preferred' date representations for the selected locale? for en_US an example preferred date (%x) is 03/20/00 i would like the century to be shown.. can we have more specifiers that show some more examples of displaying the date? why is this important? for a site thats multilingual, keeping the strftime syntax the same is essential - using the same syntax in a german locale, the string returned would be 20.03.2000 (showing the century).. this can cause an inconsistency of displaying the date in various locales.. (5) when i have the LC_ALL set to german (de_DE), the decimal point is a comma, eg 3,20.. when using number_format on this, apache core dumps.. i dont think it properly detects the LC_NUMERIC value? example, $a = 3; $b = 4; $sum = $a + $b; echo number_format($sum, 2); sometimes it returns 7,00.. sometimes IE reports a page loading error.. and it core dumps :( thanks for your time.. Harald