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Daily Archives: March 10, 2010

Building Apache Tika 0.6 fails if the locale is not en_US

I tried to build Apache Tika 0.6 yesterday and I couldn’t build it because the tests failed. The failing tests were testExcelParserFormatting(org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.ExcelParserTest) testExcelFormats(org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.ooxml.OOXMLParserTest) and the failure had to to with the fact that the locale was “es_ES” and the numbering format differs (“1.599,99” and not “1,599.99“) $ mvn -version Apache Maven 2.2.0 (r788681; 2009-06-26 15:04:01+0200) [...]