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[jira] [Updated] (CONNECTORS-94) fix common localization traps

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-94?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Karl Wright updated CONNECTORS-94:
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    Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 0.3
                       ManifoldCF 0.1
                       ManifoldCF 0.2
        Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF next

> fix common localization traps
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>                 Key: CONNECTORS-94
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-94
>             Project: ManifoldCF
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Framework core
>    Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 0.1, ManifoldCF 0.2, ManifoldCF 0.3
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>            Assignee: Robert Muir
>             Fix For: ManifoldCF next
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> Searching thru the LCF code, i found several uses of the following that appear to be potentially dangerous:
> * getBytes() with no encoding: this is dangerous as the encoding is completely unspecified. In most places this should likely mean "UTF-8"
> * getBytes("utf-8"): this is mostly a nitpick, but this alias is not guaranteed to exist (see Charset docs). I suggest changing these all to "UTF-8"
>   
> * String.toLowerCase()/String.toUpperCase() with no specified Locale, where it appears the text is not used solely for display, but instead for 'caseless matching'. I suggest changing these to use either the root Locale: new Locale("") or even easier, Locale.ENGLISH. This way ACF does not have surprising behavior on say a Turkish computer.
> I can contribute a patch to address these.

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