From 591f3b0253dfcad1972e518b4bc66e73b1275d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Felt <dougfelt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:28:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-5194 fallback to "root" instead of ""

X-SVN-Rev: 19623
---
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ULocale.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ULocale.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ULocale.java
index 720427cf9f4..9241bd532b9 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ULocale.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ULocale.java
@@ -749,6 +749,9 @@ public final class ULocale implements Serializable {
         if (loc == null) {
             return null;
         }
+        if (loc.toString().length() == 0) {
+            return ROOT;
+        }
         ULocale result = (ULocale)CACHE.get(loc);
         if (result == null && defaultULocale != null && loc == defaultULocale.locale) {
             result = defaultULocale;