Am 24.03.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Jacob Wisor:
Am 24.03.2015 um 10:29 schrieb Masayoshi Okutsu:
Hi,
Please review the fix for 8075173. There's an inconsistent month abbreviation
between the traditional JDK resources and CLDR-derived ones. We decided to take
the CLDR one, Mär.
After looking into the CLDR and comparing with some existing operating systems I
am unsure whether the CLDR is actually correct, so that the abbreviated form
should probably be Mrz indeed.
Regardless of what some operating systems are printing, it just looks strange to
me that the CLDR abbreviated form of März is Mär. Usually, ÄÖÜ (the umlauts) are
dropped first when building abbreviated forms because they are an abbreviation
themselves already and they should also be avoided in abbreviations in general.
Ä is short for AE, Ö for OE, and Ü for UE. The German judiciary system and the
military are probably the heaviest users of abbreviations and the German
language. And, while doing so they typically avoid having any umlauts or ß
(U+00DF small letter sharp S) in any abbreviations.
As always, I may be wrong and the DIN 5008 norm does sufficiently specify
abbreviated month names. However, I do not have access to the full DIN 5008 text
to verify because it is behind a pay wall. It is also very likely that the
German administration (the bureaucracy) has evolved some "proper" form of
abbreviation for months because it is full of abbreviations. However, a DIN or
any German administrative regulation would apply to the de_DE locale only. I do
not know how to deal with the default de locale and the other de_XX locales in
this case.
But, if Java is to follow the CLDR blindly then this discussions is obsolete, I
guess. ;-)
Hmm, according to http://www.din-5008-richtlinien.de/datum.php "Mär." should be
actually correct. So, the CLDR seems to be correct but missing the dot suffix.
But then, the CLDR may have a policy on suffixes to abbreviations and this patch
looks to be okay then.
Regards,
Jacob
