Re: How to set locale for application at runtime?

From:
RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:04:50 +0100
Message-ID:
<470b6052$0$13932$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>
Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:

How to set locale for application at runtime?


...

..have tried Locale.setDefault(Locale newlocale), but it
doesn't change the strings. ...


What ouput does this example produce on that PC?

<sscce>


snipped

Output is

C:\Projekte\localetest>java LocaleTest
pt_PT
es_HN
es_PE


This seemed interesting but I'm easily confused, so I did it this way

------------------------------ 8< --------------------------
package uk.co.infotop.ukbond.test;

import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Locale;

class LocaleTest {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
        Locale[] allLocale = Locale.getAvailableLocales();
        Arrays.sort(allLocale, new Comparator<Locale>() {
            public int compare(Locale o1, Locale o2) {
                return o1.toString().compareTo(o2.toString());
            }
        });

        printLocaleInfo();

        System.out.println("\nSetting default locale to 1st available");
        Locale.setDefault( allLocale[0] );
        printLocaleInfo();

        System.out.println("\nSetting default locale to last available");
        Locale.setDefault( allLocale[allLocale.length-1] );
        printLocaleInfo();
     }

     static void printLocaleInfo() {
         System.out.println("Default Locale is " + Locale.getDefault());
         System.out.println("Number format " +
                 NumberFormat.getInstance().format(12345.67));
     }
  }
------------------------------ 8< --------------------------

Default Locale is en_GB
Number format 12,345.67

Setting default locale to 1st available
Default Locale is be
Number format 12 345,67

Setting default locale to last available
Default Locale is uk_UA
Number format 12.345,67

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