On 8/10/06, Spark Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2006/8/10, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Spark Shen wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > Construct a locale like this:
> > Locale l = new Locale("", "CD");
> > On RI, l.getDisplayCountry() will return "The Democratic Republic Of
> > Congo",
> > which is different from ISO 3166-1 standard.
> > ("CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE" or "Congo, the Democratic
> > Republic
> > of the")
> IMHO, we may follow the Java Specification, that is, ISO-3166. Do you
> think user applications would be broken because of the difference with
RI.
I am not sure. But this may be a risk.
To follow ISO-3166 standard mentioned in the spec sounds better and
logical but...if you take a look on other several words country names you
can find that they are not the same on RI than in the ISO-3166. E.g.:
new Locale("", "KP");
ISO-3166 expected value: "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of "
RI returns: "North Korea"
new Locale("", "MK");
ISO-3166 expected value: "Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of "
RI returns: "Macedonia"
..and so on.
IMO in this case to be compatible with RI we can use "The Democratic
Republic Of Congo" for "CD" country. To follow completely the ISO-3166
standard we have to make changes not only for "CD" country.
Thanks,
Ilya.
Best regards
Richard.
> >
> > Mean while, on harmony, we do not have a country "CD"->"CONGO, THE
> > DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE" data item or a
> > "CD"->" Congo, the Democratic Republic of
> > the< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo>"
> > data item at all.
> >
> > This test case will fail on Harmony since the returned displayCountry
is
> > "CD".
> > public void test_getDisplayCountry() {
> >
> > Locale l_countryCD = new Locale("", "CD");
> > assertEquals("CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE",
> > l_countryCD.getDisplayCountry());
> > }
> >
> > I need to add a mapping into harmony locale data. But which?
> >
> > "CD"->"CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE"
> > or
> > "CD"->"Congo, the Democratic Republic of the"
> > or
> > "CD"->"The Democratic Republic Of Congo" (RI)
> >
> > Personally, I prefer RI, since there may be applications relies on the
> > returned displayCountry value. Your opinions?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
>
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> Richard Liang
> China Software Development Lab, IBM
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Spark Shen
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Ilya Okomin
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