Field Detail

• SEPARATOR_DEFAULT

  public static final char SEPARATOR_DEFAULT

  The default separator used for locale-infixes.

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• SEPARATOR_FOR_LANGUAGE_TAG

  public static final char SEPARATOR_FOR_LANGUAGE_TAG

  The separator used for language tag.

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• SEPARATOR_EXTENSION

  public static final char SEPARATOR_EXTENSION

  The separator used for extension keys.

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• SEPARATOR_SCRIPT

  public static final char SEPARATOR_SCRIPT

  The separator used for script.

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Method Detail

• toInfix

  public static String toInfix​(Locale locale)

  Parameters:

  locale - is the Locale.

  Returns:

  the localization-infix in the form [_language[_country[_variant]]]. Will be the empty String for the root locale. E.g. for Locale.GERMANY this method will return "_de_DE".

• toInfixes

  public static String[] toInfixes​(Locale locale)

  This method determines the infix-strings for localization lookup ordered from most specific to least specific (empty string representing Locale.ROOT). Each infix is defined as:

   [_language[_country[_variant]]]
   

  Please note that if a segment is empty but a following segment is present, multiple underscores ('_') will occur.
  Examples:

  locale	result
  Locale.GERMANY	{"_de_DE", "_de", ""}
  new Locale("", "CM")	{"__CM", ""}
  new Locale("", "", "variant")	{"___variant", ""}

  Parameters:

  locale - is the Locale.

  Returns:

  the localization-infixes ordered from most specific to least specific. The returned array will always contain the empty string as last entry.

• fromString

  public static Locale fromString​(String locale)

  Create a Locale from a given String representation such as Locale.toString() or Locale.forLanguageTag(String).

  Parameters:

  locale - the String representation of the Locale. May be an from Locale.toString(), Locale.toLanguageTag() or toInfix(Locale).

  Returns:

  the parsed Locale.