Name: rmT116609 Date: 01/14/2003


DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Please publish the spec of Collator behavior for all the supported locales. Unlike the character encodings, collation does not have a clearly defined national standard, at least for Japanese. (There is a JIS standard on collation but that leaves a lot as implementation defined.) Without knowing specification, the developers cannot tell what is expected, nor determine if the behavior difference between versions of JDK is a bug, or intended. And ISVs cannot tell the customer what are the expected result of sorting.


See API doc on java.text.Collator.


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
Clearly documented collation rules for each locale which implements localized collation rules of Collator.


CUSTOMER WORKAROUND :
Guess the spec from the behavior.
(Review ID: 180012)
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Description of duplicate bug 5054167 also mentions the need for complete specification to allow clean-room implementations.

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