[jira] [Created] (LANG-1048) Improve internationalisation by accepting more than one possible true string value in BooleanUtils.toBoolean()

["Duncan Jones (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Duncan Jones created LANG-1048:
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             Summary: Improve internationalisation by accepting more than one possible true string value in BooleanUtils.toBoolean()
                 Key: LANG-1048
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1048
             Project: Commons Lang
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: lang.*
    Affects Versions: 3.3.2
            Reporter: Duncan Jones
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: Discussion


As part of a [recent ML discussion|http://markmail.org/message/3yvgfm2fuqkvwb7q] it was noted that {{BooleanUtils.toBoolean(String)}} is biased towards English speakers.

We could match the behaviour of this method for non-English users by adding:

{code:java}
boolean toBoolean(String str, String... trueStrings)
{code}

and match in a case-insensitive fashion. Anything that doesn't match a true string is false. 

The current {{toBoolean(String)}} method would just be a special case of this new method, with the arguments {{toBoolean(str, "true", "on", "y", "t", "yes")}}.



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