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

If you are brave enough you can call the :

Locale.setDefault(Locale.getDefault());

This sets the default Locale for both of those categories

public static synchronized void setDefault(Locale newLocale) {
   setDefault(Category.DISPLAY, newLocale);
   setDefault(Category.FORMAT, newLocale);
   defaultLocale = newLocale;
}

But this of course could cause side effects.