How to request from JAVA to support something?

Question

Atlassian JIRA is a powerfull issue tracker which I am using it for a long time, as it is a good issue trakcer I bound to Localize it to my locale.

I found Their page in Linkedin and asked them if I can translate it, as it was welcomed in the community I started translating, I'd post first part of my translation for them and after a while they told me here that

Java does not support fa_IR locale.

and

• try to force java to support fa_IR
• refactor TAC so having locale is

What can I do to get JAVA attention to support fa_IR locale or something else to help JIRA supporting it? Actually I didn't get the minning of refactor TAC so having locale is how can I deal with it?

Answer 1

The Sun/Oracle Java implementation is based on OpenJDK (or rather, they've released the initial official implementation under GPL, as OpenJDK) and the two projects are closely linked.

You can check the contributor guidelines here: http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ (which includes a link to http://bugs.sun.com/)

Update : Here is the page you can find the guidline to add another locale to JAVA http://openjdk.java.net/groups/i18n/ look for Include locale in JRE in that page

Answer 2

Here's the original text

Alternatively, if the locale is correct we will have to postpone the implementation. There are two solutions we can explore, but neither in the short term:

• try to force java to support fa_IR

• refactor TAC so having locale is optional

Neither of these is anything you can fix. The first means Sun / Oracle will have to ship an additional Locale with their JRE, the second means Atlassian will have to rewrite their code to not use Locales. Neither of these are things you can do anything about.