Java 7 default locale

Question

I have just installed jre7 and I\'m surprised to see that my default locale is now en_US. With jre6 it was de_CH.

What is different with jre7? Is the default locale

Answer 1

There seems to be some changes regarding Locale in Java 7, namely differentiation between UI and 'user' locale. See this. There is now setDefault(Locale.Category, Locale). However, this does not really explain what you are experiencing - I'm merely pointing out the fact that there has been changes in Java 7 regarding locale handling.