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Internationalization and Localization

in Java
Internationalization is also abbreviated as I18N because there are
total 18 characters between the first letter 'I' and the last letter 'N'.

Internationalization is a mechanism to create such an application that

can be adapted to different languages and regions.

Internationalization is one of the powerful concept of java if you are

developing an application and want to display messages, currencies,
date, time etc. according to the specific region or language.

Localization is also abbreviated as I10N because there are total 10

characters between the first letter 'L' and last letter 'N'. Localization is
the mechanism to create such an application that can be adapted to a
specific language and region by adding locale-specific text and
component.

Do You Know ?

What is the use of Locale class ?

How can we globalize the messages (or) What is the use of

ResourceBundle class?

How can we internationalize the date, time, number, currency and

measurements?

Understanding the culturally dependent

data before starting internationalization
Before starting the internationalization, Let's first understand what are

the informations that differ from one region to another. There is the list
of culturally dependent data:

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Messages

Dates

Times

Numbers

Currencies

Measurements

Phone Numbers

Postal Addresses

Labels on GUI components etc.

Importance of Locale class in

Internationalization
An object of Locale class represents a geographical or cultural region.
This object can be used to get the locale specific information such as
country name, language, variant etc.

Fields of Locale class

There are fields of Locale class:

1. public static final Locale ENGLISH

2. public static final Locale FRENCH

3. public static final Locale GERMAN

4. public static final Locale ITALIAN

5. public static final Locale JAPANESE

6. public static final Locale KOREAN

7. public static final Locale CHINESE

8. public static final Locale SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE

9. public static final Locale TRADITIONAL_CHINESE

10. public static final Locale FRANCE

11. public static final Locale GERMANY

12. public static final Locale ITALY

13. public static final Locale JAPAN

14. public static final Locale KOREA

15. public static final Locale CHINA

16. public static final Locale PRC

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17. public static final Locale TAIWAN

18. public static final Locale UK

19. public static final Locale US

20. public static final Locale CANADA

21. public static final Locale CANADA_FRENCH

22. public static final Locale ROOT

Constructors of Locale class

There are three constructors of Locale class.They are as follows:

1. Locale(String language)

2. Locale(String language, String country)

3. Locale(String language, String country, String variant)

Commonly used methods of Locale class

There are given commonly used methods of Locale class.

1. public static Locale getDefault() it returns the instance of

current Locale

2. public static Locale[] getAvailableLocales() it returns an array

of available locales.

3. public String getDisplayCountry() it returns the country name

of this locale object.

4. public String getDisplayLanguage() it returns the language

name of this locale object.

5. public String getDisplayVariant() it returns the variant code for

this locale object.

6. public String getISO3Country() it returns the three letter

abbreviation for the current locale's country.

7. public String getISO3Language() it returns the three letter

abbreviation for the current locale's language.

Example of Local class that prints the

informations of the default locale

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In this example, we are displaying the informations of the default locale.

If you want to get the informations about any specific locale, comment
the first line statement and uncomment the second line statement in the
main method.

1. import java.util.*;

2. public class LocaleExample {

3. public static void main(String[] args) {

4. Locale locale=Locale.getDefault();

5. //Locale locale=new Locale("fr","fr");//for the specific locale

6.

7. System.out.println(locale.getDisplayCountry());

8. System.out.println(locale.getDisplayLanguage());

9. System.out.println(locale.getDisplayName());

10. System.out.println(locale.getISO3Country());

11. System.out.println(locale.getISO3Language());

12. System.out.println(locale.getLanguage());

13. System.out.println(locale.getCountry());

14.

15. }

16. }

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Output:United States
English
English (United States)
USA
eng
en
US

Example of Local class that prints english in

different languages

In this example, we are displaying english language in different
language. Let's see how english is written in french and spanish
languages.

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1. import java.util.*;

2. public class LocaleExample2 {

3. public static void main(String[] args) {

4. Locale enLocale = new Locale("en", "US");

5. Locale frLocale = new Locale("fr", "FR");

6. Locale esLocale = new Locale("es", "ES");

7. System.out.println("English language name (default): " +

8. enLocale.getDisplayLanguage());

9.

10. System.out.println("English language name in French: " +

11. enLocale.getDisplayLanguage(frLocale));

12. System.out.println("English language name in spanish: " +

13. enLocale.getDisplayLanguage(esLocale));

14. }

15.

16. }

<strong>Output:
</strong>English
language name

Example of Local class that print display

language of many locales

In this example, we are displaying the display lanuage of many locales.

1. import java.util.*;

2. public class LocaleEx {

3. public static void main(String[] args) {

4. Locale[] locales = { new Locale("en", "US"),

5. new Locale("es", "ES"), new Locale("it", "IT") };

6.

7. for (int i=0; i< locales.length; i++) {

8. String displayLanguage = locales[i].getDisplayLanguage(locales[i]);

9. System.out.println(locales[i].toString() + ": " + displayLanguage);

10. }
11. }

12.

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13. }

Output:en_US: English
es_ES: espa?ol
it_IT: italiano

What we will learn in Internationalization Tutorial ?

ResourceBundle class
I18N with Date
I18N with Time
I18N with Number
I18N with Currency
I18N with Measurements

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