Strip the legacy dateline prefix and the redundant localized
date-label clause from a candidate description, returning the
reader-facing body in isolation. Used to clean a previously-backfilled
<meta description> before it is re-fed to the per-language SEO
resolver — without this, the resolver re-clamps the prefixed buffer
against the CJK metaDescription budget and truncates the reader label
mid-clause (live regression in news/2026-04-26-week-ahead-ko.html,
a dangling "추적하는." participle).
Parameters
date: string
Article date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
slug: string
Article slug
lang: string
Article language code
description: string
Candidate description (possibly already prefixed)
Returns string
Reader-facing body with prefix + date label removed
Strip the legacy dateline prefix and the redundant localized date-label clause from a candidate description, returning the reader-facing body in isolation. Used to clean a previously-backfilled
<meta description>before it is re-fed to the per-language SEO resolver — without this, the resolver re-clamps the prefixed buffer against the CJK metaDescription budget and truncates the reader label mid-clause (live regression innews/2026-04-26-week-ahead-ko.html, a dangling "추적하는." participle).