Getting OS language in java

Question

I\'m running into a kind of problem here.

I\'m French and working on an English version of Windows XP. Therefore, I set the regional options to French, but still hav

Answer 1

I have no means to try it out (as I tend to avoid anything made by Microsoft), but take a look at these:

Java 7 required:

Locale uiLocale = Locale.getDefault(Locale.Category.DISPLAY);

That's what should be used for getting translations (starting from Java 7), anyway.

If this was not very helpful, I'd try:

System.out.println(System.getenv("LC_MESSAGES"));       
System.out.println(System.getenv("LANG"));
System.out.println(System.getenv("LANGUAGE"));

However, in this case I would expect some similarities to default Locale...