On 13/04/2023 15:58, Glavo wrote:
:
I thought it might be more efficient to discuss after creating a draft PR.
It seems that it is difficult to attract more experts to participate
in the
discussion only on the mailing list. Do you have any suggestions for this?
This proposal is not something to be hurried. It could be massively
disruptive change and would need to be looked at in the context of all
APIs that use the default locale. It would also need to be looked at in
the context of new developers starting out and just wanting to get a toy
program working. It might be confusing for new developers to find
themselves using a neutral locale. If a new developer is forced to
choose between Locale.ROOT and Locale.getDefault() during their first
week of coding then it will give a terrible first impression.
One of your messages lists cleaning up usages in the JDK. Auditing the
usages to identify any cases that should be changed from using the
default locale to Locale.ROOT would be a contribution. So if you have
the energy to do that they it would be useful to start.
-Alan.
