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This Java code will print out a list of the locale, country name, iso3166 code, iso639-2 code, and the corresponding date formats used in that country.
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import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; | |
import java.util.*; | |
import java.io.*; | |
import java.text.DateFormat; | |
// this seems to work for everything but hindi and thailand | |
public class LocaleDates { | |
static public void main(String[] args) throws IOException { | |
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF8")); | |
Locale[] list = SimpleDateFormat.getAvailableLocales(); | |
Map<String,List<Locale>> sortedLocales = new TreeMap<String,List<Locale>>(); | |
for ( Locale locale : SimpleDateFormat.getAvailableLocales() ) { | |
if ( locale.getISO3Country() != null && locale.getISO3Country().length() != 0 ) { | |
List<Locale> countryLocales = sortedLocales.get(locale.getISO3Country()); | |
if ( countryLocales == null ) { | |
countryLocales = new ArrayList<Locale>(); | |
sortedLocales.put(locale.getISO3Country(), countryLocales); | |
} | |
countryLocales.add(locale); | |
} | |
} | |
out.println("ISO 3166 Country Code ISO639-2 Country Code Country ISO 3166 Country Code ISO639-2 Lang Language Date Format"); | |
for ( String country : sortedLocales.keySet() ) { | |
List<Locale> countryLocales = sortedLocales.get(country); | |
for ( Locale locale : countryLocales ) { | |
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale); | |
Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(); | |
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 5); | |
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 3); | |
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2012); | |
String dateResults = df.format(c.getTime()); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("2012", "yyyy"); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("12", "yyyy"); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("06", "MM"); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("6", "M"); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("03", "dd"); | |
dateResults = dateResults.replace("3", "d"); | |
out.println(locale.getISO3Country() + "\t" + | |
locale.getCountry() + "\t" + | |
locale.getDisplayCountry() + "\t" + | |
locale.getISO3Language() + "\t" + | |
locale.getLanguage() + "\t" + | |
locale.getDisplayLanguage() + "\t" + | |
dateResults); | |
} | |
} | |
out.flush(); | |
//System.out.println("total country count " + sortedLocales.size()); | |
} | |
} |
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