formatDate in datepicker not formatting correctly in IE and Avant

formatDate in datepicker not formatting correctly in IE and Avant


Hi All,
I'm using jQuery 1.2.6 and the datepicker widget from jquery-ui-
personalized-1.6rc5.
I have a date that needs to be in Japanese. I have used the i18n files
that came with it, and altered
jquery/ui/i18n/ui.datepicker-ja.js to:
dateFormat: 'yy年mm月dd日',
from
dateFormat: 'yy/mm/dd'.
In Firefox, Safari, etc, this renders properly as "2009年02月27日" which
is 27th of Feb, 2009.
IE and Avant show "02/27/2009", which has neither the Japanese
characters nor the order of the format correct.
I haven't read anything from anyone else complaining about IE not
working with formatDate. Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong?
Even with the new characters (default settings), the order of the date
fields is incorrect.
Thanks very much..
-Gus