PersistentLocale is lower-casing locales

• Key: TAPESTRY-1997
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Howard M. Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Geoff Callender
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.6
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.14

Description

An issue affecting localization: PersistentLocale is converting locales from mixed case to all lower case, which is useless for formatting. For example, if page 1 sets the locale like this:

@Inject
private PersistentLocale _persistentLocaleService;

Locale locale = Locale.UK;
_persistentLocaleService.set(locale);
System.out.println("locale is " + locale + " - " + locale.getDisplayName());
 
then this is what prints:

locale is en_GB - English (United Kingdom)

But when I'm in page 2 I get the locale and find it has mutated...

Locale locale = _persistentLocaleService.get();
System.out.println("locale is " + locale + " - " + locale.getDisplayName());

...this is what prints:

locale is en_gb - en_gb

This mutated locale in page 2 is useless for formatting. Code like the following produces default-styling instead of the styling for en_GB:

_myDateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG, locale);
System.out.println(_myDateFormat.format(new Date()));

It seems this has also adversely affected how supported-locales are declared (maybe in previous releases only). See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.tapestry.user/56526/focus=56527