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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-3320:
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Thanks, that makes sense.
> After thinking more about it, I think it will be better for us to
> make the new method more generic by going through
> Locale.getAvailableLocales rather than the
> Collator.getAvailableLocales.
What if Locale.getAvailableLocales() says that a locale is available
and Collator.getAvailableLocales() says that we don't have collators
for that locale? If we only look at Locale.getAvailableLocales(),
won't we incorrectly conclude that we support collation for that
locale and create an en_US Collator?
> Database creation and boot should fail if collation=TERRITORY_BASED and the
> selected locale is not supported
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>
> Key: DERBY-3320
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3320
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 10.4.0.0
> Environment: Java ME:
> Product: phoneME Advanced (phoneme_advanced_mr2-b34)
> Profile: Foundation Profile Specification 1.1
> Linux 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:14:12 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux
> Reporter: Vemund Østgaard
> Assignee: Mamta A. Satoor
> Attachments: DERBY_3320_Repro.java
>
>
> A problem I've discovered when testing with the phoneME advanced platform is
> that the collationtests expect other locales than Locale.US to be available
> on the platform that is used for the test, and for phoneME advanced (when
> compiled as foundation profile) only Locale.US is available. From the jdk1.6
> javadoc of Collator.getAvailableLocales() I see that only Locale.US is
> strictly required:
> public static Locale[] getAvailableLocales()
> Returns an array of all locales for which the getInstance methods of this
> class can return localized instances. The returned array represents the union
> of locales supported by the Java runtime and by installed CollatorProvider
> implementations. It must contain at least a Locale instance equal to
> Locale.US.
> Returns:
> An array of locales for which localized Collator instances are
> available.
> This led me to thinking about how Derby should behave if created/booted with
> collation=TERRITORY_BASED and territory=<some unsupported locale>. I'm not
> sure what the consequences could be if the database is first created on a
> platform that supports whatever locale is set and later booted with one that
> doesn't, or created on a platform missing support and later booted with one
> that has. In any case I think it may confuse a user needlessly to see the
> database boot successfully with his collation setting and later behave in a
> way he does not expect.
> Opinions voiced on the derby-dev list are that both database creation and
> boot should fail if collation=TERRITORY_BASED and the selected locale is not
> supported.
> If a change like this is implemented, the collationtests should be changed to
> verify correct behavior also if they are executed in an environment were some
> of the tested locales are not supported.
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