Re: [general]Different locale data between RI and latest CLDR

[Spark Shen <sm...@gmail.com>]

+1, make sense.

2007/11/29, Oliver Deakin <ol...@googlemail.com>:
>
> Agreed, +1 to non-bug difference here Tony, thanks for investigating.
>
> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
> > +1 for non bug difference until some application breakage report.
> >
> > SY, Alexey
> >
> > 2007/11/29, Tony Wu <wu...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm investigating the harmony test failures coming with the delegate
> >> of Currency to ICU's implemention. Almost all of them are caused by
> >> data difference. ICU4j 3.8 is compatible with CLDR 1.5 but RI keeps
> >> the old revision of CLDR in its release. I found that RI 6 claimed in
> >> its javadoc[1] that the data is from CLDR release 1.4 and RI 5 did not
> >> say anything.
> >>
> >> This gap result in some difference on currency symbols (maybe on other
> >> things I hasn't encounter. I'll follow this thread when I find a new
> >> one) in some locale. For example, following line of code returns "EUR"
> >> on RI6 whereas returns "€" on ICU.
> >>
> >> Currency .getInstance("EUR").getSymbol(Locale.JAPAN));
> >>
> >> I suggest to record the gap as a non-bug difference on JIRA currently
> >> and modify the testcases based on RI's behavior instead of excluding
> >> them. Then if some of them break some application some day, we can
> >> customize the ICU release. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in
> >> advance.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> java6docs/technotes/guides/intl/locale.doc.html
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tony Wu
> >> China Software Development Lab, IBM
> >>
> >>
>
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> Oliver Deakin
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Spark Shen
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