919859 - Use ICU C API to determine default numbering system for locale

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 966559

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Norbert Lindenberg]

The intl_numberingSystem function in js/src/builtin/Intl.cpp currently uses the ICU C++ API to determine the default numbering system for a locale. We generally avoid the ICU C++ API because its compatibility between versions is not guaranteed, but at the time of development there was no equivalent C API.

Thanks to
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/10039#comment:5
a C API for numbering systems has been added in ICU 52, and intl_numberingSystem should be upgraded to use that new API after upgrading the Mozilla sources to ICU 52.

Comment 1

[Norbert Lindenberg]

I accidentally filed a duplicate ticket, which now has better information, so I'm closing this one.