On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:30:04 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Yes, they are localized. Good question, I do believe tests are run with >> fixed en/US locale, but I'm not absolutely sure. > > I've traced the execution of a local jtreg run with a debugger and examined > the respective `jtr` file. Here is what I saw. The locale that the javadoc > under test uses is that of returned by java.util.Locale.getDefault(). This > happens because neither of the three pieces -- jtreg, JavadocTester, or > TestSnippetTag -- passes `-locale` to javadoc. > > Now I begin to wonder: how come we don't see failures on CI builds? Are we > lucky and all the machines on which javadoc tests run use variants of English > locale? Do we not have other tests where we hard-code English string > variants? Is there something that I don't see? You don't have to do anything about locales in this PR; this part is fine as it is. I filed a bug, JDK-8275727, to address this issue at mass. It looks like almost half of javadoc tests have a similar issue. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6011
