RFR: 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese locale

[Masayoshi Okutsu]

The root cause of this "problem" is the semantic difference between the 
legacy JRE resources and the CLDR-drived resources. The root CLDR 
resources have the narrow month names as numbers to be language-neutral, 
while the JRE root resources have them as English. If you specify 
Locale.ROOT, you will get the English ones rather than the numbers. That 
is somehow an intended behavior (or a known restriction).

The narrow names are supported only in java.time due to compatibility 
constraints with java.text. So the narrow month names should go to 
src/share/classes/sun/text/resources/ja/JavaTimeSupplementary_ja.java 
rather than FormatData_ja.java. There should be more locales which have 
the same problem.

Thanks,
Masayoshi

On 8/7/2014 7:42 AM, Naoto Sato wrote:
> Looks good to me.
>
> Naoto
>
> On 8/5/14, 3:41 AM, dmeetry degrave wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review a simple fix (jdk 8 and 9) for
>>
>> 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese 
>> locale
>>
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042126
>> fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/8042126/webrev.01
>>
>> thanks,
>> dmeetry