2006/8/10, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



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.

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
>

--
Richard Liang
China Software Development Lab, IBM



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Spark Shen
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