- // first check for special Apple parents of availLocNorm -
- // - the number of locales with such parents is small -
- // or if not such parent, then try stripping region.
+ // first check for special Apple parents of availLocNorm; the number
+ // of locales with such parents is small.
+ // If no such parent, or if parent has an intermediate numeric region,
+ // then try stripping the original region.
+ int32_t availLocParentLen = 0;