<i18n dev> Turkish Time Zone name string and translation

[Mark Davis ☕️]

You'd have to look at the spec. For most names a pattern plus the country
name is used. That can be overridden with a non-composed name where needed.

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 21:50 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

> I've always wondered how the timezone-related translations are managed.
> CLDR seems to be the master repository of such data, and projects like
> OpenJDK are simply supposed to import that data.
> But I looked at the CLDR sources, and there doesn't seem to be any "Turkey
> Time" strings defined like there are for e.g. Turkmenistan.
> Maybe that work never got done?
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 6:44 AM <naoto.sato at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>