Re: [lang] LANG-975

2014-10-14 Thread Duncan Jones
On 14 October 2014 14:07, Duncan Jones wrote: > On 9 October 2014 19:17, Benedikt Ritter wrote: >> I'm not fond that we need this method. However you're raising a good point. >> BooleanUtils only "talks" english. It understands "yes" and "no" but not >> "ja" and "nein" or "oui" and "non". It woul

Re: [lang] LANG-975

2014-10-14 Thread Duncan Jones
On 9 October 2014 19:17, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > I'm not fond that we need this method. However you're raising a good point. > BooleanUtils only "talks" english. It understands "yes" and "no" but not > "ja" and "nein" or "oui" and "non". It would be nice to have a possibilty > to make the toBoole

Re: [lang] LANG-975

2014-10-09 Thread Benedikt Ritter
I'm not fond that we need this method. However you're raising a good point. BooleanUtils only "talks" english. It understands "yes" and "no" but not "ja" and "nein" or "oui" and "non". It would be nice to have a possibilty to make the toBoolean(String) method work for other langues. OTOH this can e

Re: [lang] LANG-975

2014-10-09 Thread Filippo Balicchia
Hi James, IMHO I can't see the real need for this improvement, any way, I disagree with this case BooleanUtils.toBoolean(null, null) = true Regards --Filippo 2014-10-09 9:49 GMT+02:00 James Sawle : > I have created a patch for the above issue, which adds a new method signature > to simplify th

[lang] LANG-975

2014-10-09 Thread James Sawle
I have created a patch for the above issue, which adds a new method signature to simplify the conversion from Strings to Booleans based upon a single true boolean String. This is therefore unlike the other methods, which either take no parameters (use a prebuilt list of true and false values), o