How to get Locale from its String representation in Java?

Question

Is there a neat way of getting a Locale instance from its \"programmatic name\" as returned by Locale\'s toString() method? An obvious and ugly solution would b

Answer 1

If you are using Spring framework in your project you can also use:

org.springframework.util.StringUtils.parseLocaleString("en_US");

Documentation:

Parse the given String representation into a Locale