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

You can use this on Android. Works fine for me.

private static final Pattern localeMatcher = Pattern.compile
        ("^([^_]*)(_([^_]*)(_#(.*))?)?$");

public static Locale parseLocale(String value) {
    Matcher matcher = localeMatcher.matcher(value.replace('-', '_'));
    return matcher.find()
            ? TextUtils.isEmpty(matcher.group(5))
                ? TextUtils.isEmpty(matcher.group(3))
                    ? TextUtils.isEmpty(matcher.group(1))
                        ? null
                        : new Locale(matcher.group(1))
                    : new Locale(matcher.group(1), matcher.group(3))
                : new Locale(matcher.group(1), matcher.group(3),
                             matcher.group(5))
            : null;
}