JDK-4712507 : [Fmt-Da] RFE: The year and date's numbers need in Han digits
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.text
  • Affected Version: 1.4.1
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Open
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • OS: solaris_8
  • CPU: sparc
  • Submitted: 2002-07-10
  • Updated: 2019-04-11
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4442855 - wrong date format for zh_TW
Description
Hopper b16,

run attachment testcase under simplified or tradition chinese env,
#java DateTest

you can see that only month have been l10n to chinese, but year and date remain in digit. In chinese custom, usually year, month and date all should use Han digit if there will use Han digit. But there no pattern for SimpleFormatDate to implement all, only thing can do is Han digits for month.
Comments
EVALUATION I agree on it's desirable to enable Java to express year and other numbers in Hanzi also for Japanese. It's very difficult to implement, though. Because there are several ways of expressing such numbers in Hanzi. For example, I can think aat least five ways to express "a hundred". ###@###.### 2003-10-20
20-10-2003