PK77707: NORWEGIAN BOKMAL AND NYNORSK LOCALE SETTINGS INCONSISTENT WITH S UN.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Error Message: The table below shows the return values of
  Locale.getDefault() from Sun and IBM Java runtimes,
  corresponding to the two available Windows XP Norwegian regional
  settings:
  Windows Setting  Sun Java 5 IBM Java 5
  Norwegian (Bokmal) no_NO  nb_NO
  Norwegian (Nynorsk) no_NO_NY no_NO
  The IBM Java mappings resulted in inconsistent behaviour in
  translation and locales settings using Java.
  The IBM Java behaviour needs to be altered to behave like Sun.
  .
  Stack Trace: N/A
  .
  N/A
  

Local fix

• Use the Java -D command line options to force Java to the
  desired locale, for example:
  -Duser.language=no -Duser.region=NO -Duser.variant=NY
  

Problem summary

• The J9 JVM was incorrectly mapping the Windows Norwegian
  regional settings to Java locale system properties
  

Problem conclusion

• This defect will be fixed in:
  1.4.2 SR13 (Windows IA32)
  1.4.2 SR13 (Windows AMD64)
  5.0.0 SR10
  6.0.0 SR4
  .
  The J9 JVM now maps the Windows Norwegian regional settings in
  the same manner as Sun.
  Users may use the Java -D commandline options to force desired
  Java locale settings, as outlined in the workaround.
  .
  To obtain the fix:
  Install build 20081218 or later
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  PK77711 IZ39900 IZ39902

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  JAVA1.3 1.4WIN

• Fixed component ID

  5648C9803

Applicable component levels

• R142 PSN

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