Abbreviations of Weeknames in German

Question

This is pretty straight-forward.

I have finally managed to abbreviate weeknames in “British”, i.e. en-GB. (What I need is ngerman)

But, as I'm working on a German document, I need the date format exactly like this: Mi, 18. November. Even better would be Mi, 18. Nov.

All I have managed is either Wed, 18. November, or Mittwoch, 18. November. If relevant, I'm using XeTeX on VerbTeX.

My Code/MWE:

\documentclass[%
letterpaper,%
ngerman,%
5pt,%
]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} 
\usepackage{isodate} 
\usepackage[%
useregional,
showdow,
ngerman,
]{datetime2}
\DTMlangsetup[ngerman]{abbr}
\begin{document}
\DTMlangsetup{showyear=false}
\DTMdate{2020-11-18}
\end{document}`

@leandriis Oh no, that means I have to dive into defining my own abbreviations. — Concerto, Nov 16 '20 at 21:42
Sorry for my previous, now deleted comment. I mixed something up. To get the abbreviated week day and month names, you can use \DTMlangsetup*[german]{abbr}. — leandriis, Nov 16 '20 at 21:45
@leandriis That's very good, question solved! Interesting, because it doesn't work with ngerman. — Concerto, Nov 16 '20 at 21:47

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '20 at 21:56

Use german (regionless style) instead of ngerman in the optional argument of \DTMlangsetup* as shown in the following example in order to get the abbreviated week day and month names. Alternatively, the german module for the datetime2 package, also offers de-DE, de-AT and de-CH for the corresponding regional variants.

\documentclass[%
letterpaper,%
ngerman,%
5pt,%
]{article}
\usepackage{babel} 
\usepackage[%
useregional,
showdow
]{datetime2}
\DTMlangsetup[german]{abbr}
\begin{document}
\DTMlangsetup{showyear=false}
\DTMdate{2020-11-18}
\end{document}

Background:

From the datetime2 documentation:

Abbreviations of Weeknames in German

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