<i18n dev> [9] RFR: 8061382: Separate CLDR locale data from JRE locale data

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Oct 23 07:58:35 UTC 2014


On 22/10/2014 20:52, Naoto Sato wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
>
> As I wrote in a separate email, my preference is the following module 
> names:
>
> jdk.localedata.jre
> jdk.localedata.cldr
>
> This way, they both come under "localedata" (btw, they don't provide 
> Locale, but the data for locale sensitive services such as DateFormat, 
> so I prefer to keep "localedata" here), and jre/cldr are provider 
> names which correspond to names in the system property.
jdk.localedata.XXX looks right. I wonder if we can find something better 
than "jre" for the suffix of the first one. I ask because linking that 
into a runtime that isn't the what we know today as the JRE might be 
confusing.

-Alan.


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