In Ukraine first day of week is Monday but not Sunday

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Question: In Ukraine first day of week is Monday but not Sunday

By defaults in the calendar object obtained with locale ua_UA getFirstDayOfWeek
() function return SUNDAY as a first week day... Java version is 1.3.1_01

Answer: Yes indeed, according to this list:
http://www.pjh2.de/datetime/weeknumber/wnd.php
the first day in Ukraine is Monday. For those who does not know will say that in many countries Sunday or even Saturday is first day, for example in Egypt - Saturday and in Argentina and Brasil - Sunday...
It was a bug since according to ISO 8601 in all European countries a week starts with Monday...
I know that with Hungarian calendar was the same bug... In latest 1.4.1 and beyond the bug is fixed.
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