[LANG-328] LocaleUtils.toLocale() rejects strings with only language+variant

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
• Created: 16/Apr/07 23:11
• Updated: 08/Aug/07 15:54
• Resolved: 01/May/07 23:50

Description

LocaleUtils.toLocale() throws an exception on strings containing a language and a variant but no country code. For example : fr__POSIX

This string can be produced with the JDK by instanciating a Locale with an empty string for the country : new Locale("fr", "", "POSIX").toString(). According to the javadoc for the Locale class a variant is allowed with just a language code or just a country code.

Commons Configuration handles this case in its PropertyConverter.toLocale() method. I'd like to replace our implementation by the one provided by LocaleUtils, but our tests fail due to this case.