Is there an elegant way to convert ISO 639-2 (3 letter) language codes to Java Locales?

Question

E.g. eng, spa, ita, ger

I could iterate all locales and compare the codes, but I wonder whether there is a more elegant & performant way to achieve this....

Answer 1

You can use constructor Locale(String language), where language is the 2 letter ISO-639-1 code. I think the easiest way to convert ISO-639-2 to ISO-639-1 would be to create HashMap constant.