From c9cda2816174d6d9a5f0cc118a461705e59c323b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Scherer <markus.icu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:31:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-10738 CollationAPITest/TestVariableTopSetting use the
 root collator, fails with en_US_POSIX

X-SVN-Rev: 35381
---
 icu4c/source/test/intltest/apicoll.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/icu4c/source/test/intltest/apicoll.cpp b/icu4c/source/test/intltest/apicoll.cpp
index 2745317ef6c..f45dd4f2dd3 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/test/intltest/apicoll.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/test/intltest/apicoll.cpp
@@ -1518,7 +1518,9 @@ void CollationAPITest::TestVariableTopSetting() {
 
   UChar vt[256] = { 0 };
 
-  Collator *coll = Collator::createInstance(status);
+  // Use the root collator, not the default collator.
+  // This test fails with en_US_POSIX which tailors the dollar sign after 'A'.
+  Collator *coll = Collator::createInstance(Locale::getRoot(), status);
   if(U_FAILURE(status)) {
     delete coll;
     errcheckln(status, "Collator creation failed with error %s", u_errorName(status));