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

What about setting your Locale at the start of the program in the following way, depending on java version:

public class LocaleFormatter {

private static Locale locale;

private LocaleFormatter() {

}

public static Locale setDefaultLocale() {
    if (locale == null) {
        if (!System.getProperty("java.version").startsWith("1.7.")) {
            locale = Locale.getDefault();
        } else {
            try {
                Class localeClass = Class.forName("java.util.Locale");
                Class categoryClass = Class.forName("java.util.Locale$Category");
                Object format = null;
                for (Object constant : categoryClass.getEnumConstants()) {
                    if (constant.toString().equals("FORMAT")) {
                        format = constant;
                    }
                }
                Method method = localeClass.getMethod("getDefault", categoryClass);

                locale = (Locale) method.invoke(Locale.getDefault(), format);
                Locale.setDefault(locale);
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    return locale;
}

}