<i18n dev> RFR: 8342582: user.region for formatting number no longer works for 21.0.5 [v3]

[Justin Lu]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:17:11 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is a regression caused by the fix to [JDK-8321206](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8321206), where the default locale with `user.region` creation is inadvertently broken. Fix is to restore the user.region override within StaticProperty initialization.
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> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Corrected wrong assumption in the test

I wonder if _user.region_ can be deprecated for removal in the future. AFAICT it is not specified anywhere besides the older L10n guides. I don't know the history, but if it is a compatibility workaround from ~JDK1.1 era it seems like a reasonable candidate.

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Marked as reviewed by jlu (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21645#pullrequestreview-2386518067