<i18n dev> How to get ResourceBundle from LocaleData

[Sean Chou]

Hi  Masayoshi,

    It is about adding Currency variants to Slovenia . We hope there is a
method to get the currency symbol before it joins European Union. As
described in test attached.  I ported a patch to openjdk 2 weeks ago, which
contains following modification:

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diff -r e7d125f2575b src/share/classes/java/util/Currency.java
--- a/src/share/classes/java/util/Currency.java Sun Aug 12 22:56:45 2012
+0100
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/util/Currency.java Thu Aug 16 11:05:57 2012
+0800
@@ -352,6 +352,20 @@
      */
     public static Currency getInstance(Locale locale) {
         String country = locale.getCountry();
+        String variant = locale.getVariant();
+        if ("EURO".equals(variant))
+            return getInstance("EUR");
+        if ("PREEURO".equals(variant)) {
+            /* getNumberFormatData(locale) is used here to get the
FormatData's
+             * resource bundle from which the value of the Currency
property can
+             * be retrieved. getNumberFormatData(locale) is not specific to
+             * NumberFormat. It returns the FormatData's resource bundle
for the
+             * given locale and so is used here. */
+            ResourceBundle rb = LocaleData.getNumberFormatData(locale);
+            String CurrencyCode = rb.getString("Currency");
+            return getInstance(CurrencyCode);
+        }
+
         if (country == null) {
             throw new NullPointerException();
         }

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And it came across RFE: Locale Data Deployment Enhancements .  So, how can
I make it work again ? And by the way, how do you think about adding this
variants to openjdk ?

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu <
masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> LocaleData is a sun private class. It was changed to support different
> locale data sources, such as the platform locale data and CLDR. Please use
> the public APIs, such as DecimalFormatSymbols, to get locale-dependent
> resources. We may change the LocaleData and its related classes further.
>
> Is there any reason that you need to use LocaleData?
>
> Thanks,
> Masayoshi
>
>
> On 8/28/2012 12:39 PM, Sean Chou wrote:
>
>> Hello ,
>>
>>      I noticed that LocaleData class changed a lot static methods to
>> instance methods. I have a simple question about how to rewrite this
>> invocation: "ResourceBundle rb = LocaleData.**getNumberFormatData(locale);'
>> .
>>      Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>


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Best Regards,
Sean Chou