"no inheritance marker"
Naoto Sato
naoto.sato at oracle.com
Tue Mar 31 19:03:19 CDT 2015
Hello,
I have a question on this "no inheritance marker", used in the short
form of time zone "metazone" names. In LDML spec, it reads:
---
If a given short metazone form is known NOT to be understood in a given
locale and the parent locale has this value such that it would normally
be inherited, the inheritance of this value can be explicitly disabled
by use of the 'no inheritance marker' as the value, which is 3
simultaneous empty set characters ( U+2205 ). [1]
---
So if an app tries to display the short names with this marker, what
should they actually be?
For example, in case of "en_GB" locale, lookup for "America_Pacific"
short names ends up with this "U+2205U+2205U+2205" marker in "en_001"
locale, which disables inheriting "PT"/"PST"/"PDT" in "en".
Naoto
[1]
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-39/tr35-dates.html#Metazone_Names
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