Re: SAX 1.0beta: Three bugs so far

Chris Maden (crism@ora.com)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:41:17 -0400 (EDT)


[David Megginson]

> BUG #2: Parser.setLocale takes only one String argument
>
> As will quickly become apparent, I am not an expert in
> localisation. I have discovered that localisation requires both
> a language code _and_ a country code, so I have changed the
> interface prototype to
>
> public abstract void setLocale (String language, String country)
> throws SAXException;
>
> Does this look correct? Would people prefer that I use the
> java.util.Locale class?

I think a single string, or unspecified parts, would be better. XML
allows RFC 1766 language identifiers, which can include i-cherokee and
x-klingon. The language-country form is only one class of valid
language identifier.

-Chris

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