[loc-en-dev] he/iw issue

[Naoto Sato]

(12/10/10 11:42 AM), Yoshito Umaoka wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 2:31 PM, Naoto Sato wrote:
>> > what we get with this is just allowing people to use either he or iw
>>
>> Well, I see this is important enough as:
>>
>> - he is important as it's the ISO code for Hebrew.
>
> I'm not convinced much about this. In Java, people had to use suffix _iw
> for Hebrew bundles - I do not think support _he in addition to _iw make
> people happy.

That does not justify what we should be doing. In fact, we've received 
dozen requests (including web bug votes) for this.

>
>> - iw is important for compatibility.
>>
>> I think supporting both would overcome the lookup cost (and it can be
>> limited only to he/iw etc.). Again, asking apps to provide a custom
>> Control for legit codes sounds too much.
>>
> I think this is one of area which we may want to look into.
> ResourceBundle.Control is powerful, but specifying custom Control
> implementation everywhere is usually not acceptable. I think the right
> solution is to allow user to "set" default control.

Yes, that's worth looking into in the future release.

Naoto