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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] com.ibm.icu requirement
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> Can you please explain why Subversive should use the ICU4J calendar and
> date/time formatting support and not be content with what's provided with
> standard Java?
The short answer is no (ICU is not my area of expertise :-)
But I can give specific example that it is good to support. Most
languages still use the Gregorian calendar. ICU allows a calendar to
be associated with the locale using the unicode language extensions,
like: -nl en_US
ja_JP@@collation=phonebook;calendar=islamic-civil;currency=USD
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers
It's not that SVN uses the Hebrew Calendar, but that users of SVN want
the Hebrew Calendar displayed to them.
AFAIK there are other fixes, and timing data associated with them
(although the latests JVMs timing data is much more up to date).
Later,
PW
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Paul Webster
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