Liberty 18.0.0.1 startup issues with Arabic locale

[warren-acker]

When starting my Liberty server and running using locale ar_DZ.UTF-8, the Liberty server fails to start with these messages in the log file:

Launching domainconsole (WebSphere Application Server 18.0.0.1/wlp-1.0.20.cl180120180309-2209) on IBM J9 VM, version 8.0.5.16 - pxa6480sr5fp16-20180524_01(SR5 FP16) (ar_DZ)

CWWKE0005E: The runtime environment could not be launched.
CWWKE0018E: An exception occurred while launching the runtime environment: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.LaunchException: Caught unexpected exception java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.internal.KernelBootstrap.rethrowException(KernelBootstrap.java:530)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.internal.KernelBootstrap.go(KernelBootstrap.java:218)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.Launcher.handleActions(Launcher.java:246)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.Launcher.createPlatform(Launcher.java:121)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.cmdline.EnvCheck.main(EnvCheck.java:59)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.cmdline.EnvCheck.main(EnvCheck.java:35)
Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:76)
at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:613)
at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:643)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.collector.BurstDateFormat.format(BurstDateFormat.java:105)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.collector.DateFormatHelper.formatTime(DateFormatHelper.java:65)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.BaseTraceFormatter.messageLogFormat(BaseTraceFormatter.java:395)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.JsonTraceService.publishLogRecord(JsonTraceService.java:337)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.BaseTraceService.info(BaseTraceService.java:307)
at com.ibm.websphere.ras.Tr.info(Tr.java:632)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.IncidentImpl.log(IncidentImpl.java:264)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.BaseFFDCService.log(BaseFFDCService.java:239)
at com.ibm.ws.logging.internal.impl.BaseFFDCService.processException(BaseFFDCService.java:216)
at com.ibm.ws.ffdc.FFDCFilter.processException(FFDCFilter.java:94)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.launch.internal.LauncherDelegateImpl.launchFramework(LauncherDelegateImpl.java:103)
at com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.internal.KernelBootstrap.go(KernelBootstrap.java:212)
... 4 more