[Biojava-dev] Fw: Locale-sensitive PDB header produced

[Andreas Prlic]

Thanks for the fix Amr, good point about the standard locale.

Not sure why your mail did not come through at first attempt. Didn't
you have email sending issues before? I did not see anything coming in
server-side. Perhaps worth trying a different email/provider?

Andreas

2011/9/13 Amr AL-Hossary <amr_alhossary at hotmail.com>:
> Dear Dr. Andreas
> I sent this email twice to the group before but it wasn't received, nor a
> rejection notification returned
> Do you have any clues?
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Amr AL-Hossary" <amr_alhossary at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:41 PM
> To: <biojava-dev at lists.open-bio.org>
> Subject: Fw: Locale-sensitive PDB header produced
>
>> While building Snapshot, the org.biojava.bio.structure.PDBFileParserTest
>> failed;
>> because of the regional settings on my PC where month names are written in
>> Arabic.
>>
>> The test string was
>> HEADER COMPLEX (SERINE PROTEASE/INHIBITORS) 06-FEB-98 1A4W
>> while the produced Header was
>> HEADER COMPLEX (SERINE PROTEASE/INHIBITORS) 06-فبر-98 1A4W
>>
>> So I changed all SimpleDateFormat constructors in Biojava 3 to be
>> explicitly tied to the US Locale.
>>
>> Please all stick to specifying fixed locale in any further development
>>
>> Amr
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