RFR 9 : 8138824 : java.lang.String: spec doesn't match impl when ignoring case - equalsIgnoreCase(), regionMatches()

[Naoto Sato]

Hi Brent,

I wonder whether we should add a negative test case, in which 
lowercasing/uppercasing on the originals would differ but 
String.equalsIgnoreCase() returns true.

Naoto

On 10/7/15 4:30 PM, Brent Christian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review my doc/spec change (no code) for 8138824.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8138824
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8138824/webrev.0/
> Specdiff:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8138824/specdiff.0/overview-summary.html
>
>
> This change addresses a longstanding mismatch between spec and
> implementation, clarifies comparison methods which do not account for
> locale, and adds references to the locale-aware java.text.Collator.
>
> Thanks,
> -Brent
>