urgent...how to get locale on unix

[sourabhjha]

I have a code where i am getting defaultlocale using locale class.On windows it returns me "en_us" but on unix it returns me "en".How do i make it consistent on both the platforms

 

[toolkit]

locale -a will list available locales for your UNIX box. locale will show your current locale settings. On my sun box, setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 produces the results you want. For example:

import java.util.*;
public class LocaleTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.getProperties().list(System.out);
    System.out.println(Locale.getDefault());
    System.out.println(new Date());
  }
}

Produces the following outputs depending on the locale setting:

LANG=en_GB java LocaleTest
...
en_GB   <-- the locale
Tue Feb 25 10:57:39 GMT 2003

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 java LocaleTest
...
en_US   <-- the locale
Tue Feb 25 10:58:13 GMT 2003

Hope this helps. Cheers, Neil

 

[toolkit]

ps: replace thelast line with the following to gate a locale specific date output:

    System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat().format(new Date()));

Cheers, Neil

 

[sourabhjha]

Thanks a lot.That was helpful