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

Well, I would store instead a string concatenation of Locale.getISO3Language(), getISO3Country() and getVariant() as key, which would allow me to latter call Locale(String language, String country, String variant) constructor.

indeed, relying of displayLanguage implies using the langage of locale to display it, which make it locale dependant, contrary to iso language code.

As an example, en locale key would be storable as

en_EN
en_US

and so on ...