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Glen Mazza commented on ROL-1970:
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Hi Omid, thanks for supplying a patch. But I'm not sure Roller should be going
beyond the default locales supported by the JDK
(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javase7locales-334809.html). As
a technical matter, I'm not sure just adding a locale helps anything, you still
have to provide coding for that locale, as Anil had mentioned back in 2009:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-user/200910.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
.
For Iran in particular, U.S. export prohibitions prevent Oracle from supplying
its products to that country
(http://www.oracle.com/us/products/export/export-regulations-345813.html),
which may be why Persian is unsupported (with there being ten times as many
Persian speakers as some other supported languages--Finnish, Danish,
etc.--there are probably legal reasons why Oracle doesn't support Iran OOTB,
reasons that would probably be the same for us.)
As I understand Wordpress offers a Persian front-end, so you may wish to
consider that blogging software instead. But I think this patch really needs
to be supplied to the Oracle JDK team and not us. If Oracle is not willing to
support a language spoken by 75 million people, there must be a reason for
that, and without knowing the full story, I'd be reluctant to have Roller
override their decision.
> Add Iran Locale
> ---------------
>
> Key: ROL-1970
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1970
> Project: Roller
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Omid Pourhadi
> Assignee: Roller Unassigned
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: patch.txt
>
>
> since Iran locale is no longer in JDK Available Locales. it can be added to
> Roller by this patch
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