[9] RFR: 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese locale

2014-09-25 Thread Masayoshi Okutsu
Hello, Please review the fix for narrow month names support. The narrow names, typically one letter names, are derived from the CLDR data. But there are some semantic differences between the legacy JDK localization and CLDR. The root resources have English names in JDK, but those are language

Re: [9] RFR: 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese locale

2014-09-25 Thread Naoto Sato
Could it cause regressions in other locales, which has been expecting English narrow month names? Naoto On 9/25/14, 2:08 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote: Hello, Please review the fix for narrow month names support. The narrow names, typically one letter names, are derived from the CLDR data. But t

Re: [9] RFR: 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese locale

2014-09-25 Thread Masayoshi Okutsu
Strictly speaking, this is an incompatible change from 8.0, but looks like those locales that don't have narrow month names expect the numbers rather than the English ones. Masayoshi On 9/26/2014 1:12 AM, Naoto Sato wrote: Could it cause regressions in other locales, which has been expecting

Re: [9] RFR: 8042126: DateTimeFormatter "MMMMM" returns English value in Japanese locale

2014-09-25 Thread Naoto Sato
OK, looks good to me then. Naoto On 9/25/14, 4:01 PM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote: Strictly speaking, this is an incompatible change from 8.0, but looks like those locales that don't have narrow month names expect the numbers rather than the English ones. Masayoshi On 9/26/2014 1:12 AM, Naoto Sato