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

[dmeetry degrave]

Naoto, Masayoshi, thanks for looking at this!

On 08/07/2014 07:38 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot about Calendar.getDisplayName. Perhaps the JRE semantic
> (Locale.ROOT is English) support for all narrow names should be given up.
>
> I will take over this one because it will require some changes to the
> locale service provider framework.
>
> Thanks,
> Masayoshi
>
> On 8/7/2014 11:38 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:
>> 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
>>
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