<i18n dev> Turkish Time Zone name string and translation

naoto.sato at oracle.com naoto.sato at oracle.com
Sat Nov 16 14:41:56 UTC 2019


Letu,

Please go ahead and fix the issue in English resource. As to the 
translation, Oracle l10n will translate it in appropriate locales.

Naoto

On 11/15/19 5:56 PM, Yang, Letu wrote:
> Hi Naoto
> 
> Thank you for the quick response! We will file a ticket later today.
> 
> Shall we make an effort on fixing and translating the strings, or you 
> prefer to take care of it at Oracle?
> 
> Letu
> 
> On Nov 15, 2019 4:29 PM, naoto.sato at oracle.com wrote:
> Hi Letu,
> 
> Please file a JBS issue for this (component: core-libs, subcomponent:
> java.util:i18n).
> 
> Naoto
> 
> On 11/15/19 3:19 PM, Yang, Letu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We recently found an issue with the Time Zone name for “Europe/Istanbul” and "Asian/Istanbul". Since Turkey moved to their own Turkish Time (TRT) zone in 2016, although the tzdata had been updated, the Time Zone name string has not been updated yet:
>> 
>> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/8e7f29b1ad4a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/util/resources/TimeZoneNames.java#l836
>> 
>> It still returns "Eastern European Time" for the TimeZone.getDisplayName call, which has a summer time while Turkish Time does not. An entry for TRT need to be added to this file, and assign to both "Europe/Istanbul" and "Asian/Istanbul". This also need to  be updated for other locales. I can create a JBS issue for this, but I 
> am not sure whether we should fix this bug, or there is an existing 
> procedure for this kind of bug which requires language translation.
>> 
>> Letu
>> 
>> 
>> 


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