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Java Platform Localization Classes
In the Java 2 platform,
java.util.Locale
represents a specific geographical, political, or cultural region. The string representation of a locale consists of the international standard 2-character abbreviation for language and country and an optional variant, all separated by underscore _ characters. Examples of locale strings include fr (French), de_CH (Swiss German), and en_US_POSIX (United States English on a POSIX-compliant platform).Locale-sensitive data is stored in a
java.util.ResourceBundle
. A resource bundle contains key-value pairs, where the keys uniquely identify a locale-specific object in the bundle. A resource bundle can be backed by a text file (properties resource bundle) or a class (list resource bundle) containing the pairs. A resource bundle instance is constructed by appending a locale string representation to a base name.For more details on internationalization and localization in the Java 2 platform, see
In the Web technology chapters, the Duke's Bookstore example contains resource bundles with the base name
messages.BookstoreMessages
for the localesen_US
andes_ES
. See Internationalization Tags (page 703) for information on the JSTL i18n tags.
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