<i18n dev> RFR: JDK-8167143:CLDR timezone parsing does not work for all locales

[Naoto Sato]

Looks good to me.

Naoto

On 12/21/16 5:10 AM, Rachna Goel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review fix for JDK-8167143.
>
> Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167143
>
> patch : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rgoel/JDK-8167143/webrev.03/index.html
>
> Fix : Timezone Parsing failures reasons are different for different
> locales.
> a) For Chinese Locales, At run time, as these locales are not declared
> to be supported from CLDR, so COMPAT Locales precede them during
> resourcebundle search path at run time.
> So, for [ zh-Hans-CN zh-Hant-HK zh-Hant-MO zh-Hant-TW zh-Hans-SG]  these
> likely subtags are  added for CLDR Provider.
>
> b) For Thai locales, in DateFormatSymbols class, if SimpleDateForamt
> instance for th_TH_TH locale, happens to be created first, then current
> code is unconditionally
> caching JRE's th_TH bundle which is wrong behaviour.
>
> c) For zh__Hant and zh__Hans locales, retrieved list of candidate
> locales is not appropriate. zh_TW_Hant and zh_CN_Hans should not be
> first candidate locale to be looked up for those cases respectively.
>
> d) locales nb-NO and nn-NO which are equivalent of no-NO-NY should be
> declared as implicit locales for COMPAT for all providers.
>
> Thanks,
> Rachna