<i18n dev> Support Hijri calendar

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 20 September 2013 15:25, Suhail Alkowaileet <xsoh.k7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to support the lunar Hijri calendar(see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijri ) to the jdk and I'm just asking should
> I do something before doing this?
> My plan is to clone the jdk8/l10n/jdk and add the appropriate files to of
> the Hijri and push them back. I'm going to use the Umm al-Qura calendar as
> the way of calculating(see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijri#Saudi_Arabia.27s_Umm_al-Qura_calendar ).

Just to note that JDK8 will include Hijri Umm al-Qura
http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/time/chrono/package-summary.html

Stephen