812784 - Create API in chrome registry for best-matching locale instead of getSelectedLocale("global")

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

For android and b2g, we don't want to localize toolkit no more, but just overload a few select toolkit files in a new provider.

Thus a trick like getSelectedLocale("global") to get the best match we have for a given locale setting won't work no more.

I propose we factor that into the chrome registry, and just iterate over providers and see how good a match we can find in all registered packages.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I don't see how I can make this work for the RTL code on the caller side, so I'll WONTFIX this in favor of a solution where we can make the chrome registry look at an alternative package instead.