Name: tb29552 Date: 05/27/98


A BreakIterator retrieved by getSentenceInstance()
doesn't find a sentence break if the sentence ends
with a number. For example, there is only a single
sentence in the following. There should be three:

 "Today is the 27th of May, 1998. Tomorrow will be 28 May 1998. The day after will be the 30th."

Here's a simple program:

import java.text.BreakIterator;

public class bug
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    int pos = 0;
    String theText = "Today is the 27th of May, 1998. Tomorrow will be 28 May 1998. The day after will be the 30th.";
    
    BreakIterator breaks = BreakIterator.getSentenceInstance();
    breaks.setText(theText);
    while (pos != BreakIterator.DONE) {
      pos = breaks.next();
      System.out.println("Sentence Break at " + pos);
    }
  }
}


The output is
Sentence Break at 93
Sentence Break at -1


I'd like to see
Sentence Break at 31
Sentence Break at 61
Sentence Break at 93
Sentence Break at -1

This has been tested using default Locales of en
and en_AU.
(Review ID: 32445)
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