[WG: I18N & L10N] Request for reviewing

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi Daniel,

I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with Sun's bug database.

I fail to understand how "third parties can provide support for locales 
where Sun or other providers of Java runtimes don't have the necessary 
expertise."

Does this mean you can only support more locales if you're a third party 
providing an extended Java runtime?

Cheers,

J-F

On 15/11/2012 14:08, Daniel Merino wrote:
> Hi Yuki,
>
> thank you very much for your page, I think that it will be very useful.
>
> Just to clarify it, Java doesn't support several locales. It seems that
> they added a mechanism for allowing to add new locales at:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4052440 but I think
> that few people use it nowadays.
>
> If you take a look, all the basque results of your study are the same
> that english locale, because basque locale is not supported and it takes
> the english default values.
>
> Sakai must have (and it has, I think) mechanisms to override Java's
> locale settings by locally configured settings. For example, decimal
> separator character should be a comma in basque language, like in most
> non-english European countries, but our users must work with dots when
> they work in basque in 2.7.1. I think that this is solved in 2.9 in most
> of the tools, but it's a shame that Java doesn't provide a good solution
> by itself.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Yuki Yamada escribió:
>> Hi all,
>> I wrote the following page in Confluence. Please review and freely
>> modify it.
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/I18N/Cultures+and+Requirements
>> Reason:
>> We faced the issue of the number format as follows while developing
>> Sakai 2.9.0:
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1793
>> But I did not know that such a culture of the number existed in the
>> world, because the people in my country used the same format as the
>> U.S. So, I'd like to gather and share the information of those
>> cultures which should be supported in Sakai.
>> Sincerely,
>> Yuki Yamada